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Mass Exodus from Blue States to Red States
Townhall.com ^ | February 12, 2018 | Rachel Alexander

Posted on 02/12/2018 5:47:08 AM PST by Kaslin

Democrats claim their policies are superior to Republicans, but they keep leaving their blue states and moving into red states. Democrats are known for taking over large urban areas and turning them blue, then deserting them as they become unpleasant to move on to better territory in red states where they make the same transformations. They increase taxes and regulations, making it expensive and annoying to live wherever they get into power. 

According to United Van Lines, the top 10 states people are leaving include the blue states Wisconsin, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Illinois. Only three red states made the list; Kentucky, Utah, and Kansas.

The top 10 states people are moving to include the red states Idaho, South Dakota, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Nevada and Colorado (the last two are purplish states). Only three solidly blue states made the list, Vermont, Oregon and Washington. In 2017, Vermont slipped, with its inbound and outbound moving becoming about equal. Notably, all three of those states used to be much more moderate, only turning blue within the past 25 years or so. Longtime residents in Washington and Oregon regularly rant about Californians taking over their states and turning them blue. People in Vermont complain about Democrats from Massachusetts and New York moving into their state. The bluer those three states become, the fewer people will move there as we’re already seeing with Vermont.

Last week, CBS in San Francisco reported that the number of people leaving the Bay Area reached its highest level in more than a decade. Topping the list of reasons for moving was the high cost of housing. Democrats are more reluctant than Republicans to allow permits for homebuilding, and pile on regulations.  

With the exception of Houston, according to Redfin, the top nine cities people are leaving are all in blue states. Besides San Francisco, they include New York, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, Chicago, Houston, Detroit, Dayton and Milwaukee. Los Angeles has the worst traffic in the world, and San Francisco is not far behind. Democrats are fond of diverting transportation money into public transportation and HOV lanes instead of easing traffic congestion with more traffic lanes. 

A majority of the top 10 cities people are moving to are located in red states. They include Phoenix, Atlanta, Dallas, Nashville, Tampa and Miami. The other cities are San Diego, Sacramento, Boston and Las Vegas, which is located in a purplish state.

Moving companies survey those moving as to why. Economic opportunities is a big reason. United Van Lines found that 60 percent of respondents from the Midwest move to take new employment or a job transfer. Michael Stoll, economist and professor in the Department of Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles, says two main reasons people move are for lower housing costs and higher job growth. 

Retiring in a better state is also a popular reason for moving. United Van Lines found 17 percent of those moving from the Midwest cited a different retirement location.

The conservative American Legislative Exchange Council ranks states according to their economic performance. Many of the states that people are moving to are ranked toward the top. Seven are red states and one is purple. Many of the most common states that people are moving out of are clustered around the bottom of the list. The bottom 10 include Ohio, New Jersey, Illinois, Connecticut and Wisconsin.

People are leaving Los Angeles in droves, and blue California was ranked the last state in the country for business 12 years in a row, according to Chief Executive magazine’s annual Best and Worst States for Business survey of CEOs. Red Texas ranked number one the past 12 years. One CEO complained in the survey, “States like California just don’t get it. At the rate they are going, who’s going to pay the bills with such an anti-business, leftist government and businesses leaving every month for Arizona and Washington state?” California has the highest state income tax in the country. The survey also noted that the bottom 10 states are not right-to-work states, but most of the top 10 are. 

The reason California as a whole isn’t in the top 10 states people are leaving is likely due to its weather, which is a key reason people move. Likewise, the reason red Arizona isn’t in the top 10 states people are moving to is because it’s so hot. 

Democrats will point to the handful of blue states and cities that are still popular locations to move to as evidence their policies aren’t all bad. But they’re in the minority, and trends are turning against them. Pretty soon the only blue areas people will be flocking to will be areas the Democrats recently turned blue. Democrats can talk the talk, but actions speak louder than words. 


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: bluestate; bluestatesvredstates; conservatism; economy; liberals; redstates
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1 posted on 02/12/2018 5:47:08 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Gentry Liberals spreading out.


2 posted on 02/12/2018 5:52:26 AM PST by griswold3 (Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.)
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To: Kaslin

Infiltrators, bringing their disease with them. Build a Wall (around coastal California and northern urban Zones).


3 posted on 02/12/2018 5:53:46 AM PST by PAR35
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To: Kaslin

...Democrats are fond of diverting transportation money into public transportation and HOV lanes instead of easing traffic congestion with more traffic lanes....

This is a foundational democrat and other liberal tactic. When the people are doing something Democrats don’t want them to do, then make doing that as difficult as possible.
Another example is restricting guns they don’t like and now making ammunition hard to buying California.


4 posted on 02/12/2018 5:54:37 AM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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To: Kaslin

We need that migration to swing states.


5 posted on 02/12/2018 5:54:45 AM PST by New Jersey Realist ( (Be Nice To Your Kids. They Will Pick Out Your Nursing Home))
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To: Kaslin

And they keep voting for liberal fools, turning once-decent areas into liberal $hitholes.


6 posted on 02/12/2018 5:55:11 AM PST by I want the USA back (Cynicism may just keep you from going insane in a world that has chosen its own demise.)
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To: Kaslin

Democrats are literally like a plague on the land...


7 posted on 02/12/2018 5:55:12 AM PST by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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To: New Jersey Realist

I assumed it was conservatives doing the moving.


8 posted on 02/12/2018 5:56:20 AM PST by New Jersey Realist ( (Be Nice To Your Kids. They Will Pick Out Your Nursing Home))
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The california locust invasion has absolutely destroyed nevada... waiting for the income tax... tick tick tick


9 posted on 02/12/2018 5:57:12 AM PST by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: Wpin

They are not our people. They will turn the red states blue like Nevada. Colorado. It would be nice if they thinned out just enough to give us a ‘slight’ majority everywhere. Won’t happen.


10 posted on 02/12/2018 5:57:46 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Wpin

They really are. However, not everyone in a blue state is a liberal creep. My husband and I left Blue Jersey for Red North Carolina. Unfortunately, the Socialist pigs have been infiltrating this beautiful state, too.


11 posted on 02/12/2018 5:58:08 AM PST by AmericanMermaid
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To: Kaslin
Scary, vermin always scatter to new territory after wasting their own.
12 posted on 02/12/2018 5:58:25 AM PST by iontheball (lLL)
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To: Kaslin

Move on in with us, but don’t bring your democrat, liberal politics!


13 posted on 02/12/2018 5:58:26 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Kaslin
Democrats claim their policies are superior to Republicans, but they keep leaving their blue states and moving into red states.

And most of them immediately set about trying to recreate the leftist scatholes they just escaped from.


14 posted on 02/12/2018 5:58:30 AM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (The only trannie I want to see is a Muncie 4 Speed M-22 Rock Crusher)
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To: PAR35

Right, the idiots infect the areas they go to.


15 posted on 02/12/2018 5:58:40 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: Kaslin

AZ is too damn hot.


16 posted on 02/12/2018 5:58:52 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: New Jersey Realist

They may or may not be conservatives, but I’d say 99% of them are taxpayers.


17 posted on 02/12/2018 5:58:59 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Go ahead, bite the Big Apple ... don't mind the maggots.")
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To: Wpin
Just like locust. Once they consume one part of the vineyard, they move on to the next.

Is the only answer fumigation?

18 posted on 02/12/2018 5:59:14 AM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Kaslin

Be careful what you wish for. Blue staters coming to red states do not like getting their nose rubbed in it so they are coming to red states to stink them up.


19 posted on 02/12/2018 6:00:05 AM PST by chuckee
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To: griswold3

Yup. Move away, but bring their liberal ideas and voting patterns with them, thus beginning to turn the places they move into the places they left.


20 posted on 02/12/2018 6:00:34 AM PST by TallahasseeConservative ( Isaiah 40:31)
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