I am just wondering how you “devine” that these CA transplants are don't share your values? Seems to me that the kind of folks who are leaving California are probably not the Liberal Trash that's collected there. Also, I will make you a bet that as a percentage of Arizona's population, illegals represent a bigger chunk of your state's people than they do here in CA. I remember the cardboard shantytown just south of Phoenix (across the interstate from Awatuke) when I used to drive down to Casa Grande on business.
I define those with “CA values” as those who want to come in and create/maintain/bolster HOA’s, regulate these smaller towns (and no, where I live isn’t a “shantytown” or otherwise be big CA fish in a little AZ pond. The “Californication” of AZ is something to be opposed. Have read of it happening in Oregon and Idaho as well.
Most leaving CA are indeed akin to “our” way of thinking. There are too many who bring it with them, still.
BTW, noted from your profile you are in NorCal... a wholly different beast from SoCal (I grew up in NorCal, moved to AZ from SoCal)... so, I’ll grant you the “State of Jefferson” is much more like what I have here in AZ :)
Also, I will make you a bet that as a percentage of Arizona's population, illegals represent a bigger chunk of your state's people than they do here in CA. I remember the cardboard shantytown just south of Phoenix (across the interstate from Awatuke) when I used to drive down to Casa Grande on business.
Not by percentages according to this map, which being from Slate I'm sure way understates the numbers -