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.
Same as the immigrants who come to the USA because it is the best place on earth to live, and they bring their outhouse cellar culture here with them and refuse to assimilate.
Vermont, Oregon, and Washington aren't blue.
They're _____________.
Hint: Begins with W.
And Spanish is one of my second languages. So?
The fact remains that us Northerners are invading your state. We don’t wait 14+ years to become a citizen. We are citizens already. And we vote. And nobody is attempting to educate us, or even ask us to think about why we left the north.
Newton has a small,but long time,stable, black population,been there for years,as well as a black church that has also been there for years.
Libs lecturing the country about race occurs all over the country,not just the Boston area,the entire state of Vermont does it.
Boston may be racist but calling it the most racist city in the U.S. is a bit of a stretch.
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You mean locust devouring everything as they go spreading the cancer of liberalism. Pretty soon there will be no where for the cancer to spread too, then things get really interesting when they turn on their own.
Ok. In my opinion, based on my experiences, Boston is the most racist city that I’ve ever visited.
I figured we had run that out-—:-)
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Probably the way that I should have stated it from the beginning, but I still love the city.
Have fun when you visit————I grew up there,but left many years ago——and then spent 45 years in Newton.
My young adult grandkids LOVE the city,but it’s almost foreign to me now———getting old.(sigh)
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The chiggers are the size of ticks...And the ticks are the size of mice.
The weather is colder than a witches heart...in the winter. And hotter than hell in the summer.
Don't move to Oklahoma.
Don’t forget tornados————that would keep me away.:-)
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‘Used to be a nice area, now it’s a filthy liberal cesspool....’
my ex, a retired schoolteacher, lives in Pittstown; we lived in Oldwick when we were together...beautiful place, really, but ruined by the gentry, IMHO...
she and her hubby, also a former teacher, are lefties, probably their friends are too; there was a time when Hunterdon County was rural and Republican, but those days are gone...I left Jersey 40 years ago, still miss it, and always will; it’s where my heart is...
Where did you move to (from NJ)? A red state? Another blue? Thanks.
‘We live in Belvidere in Warren County’
my mother’s family moved from East Orange to Belvidere after her high school graduation in 1946...I can only imagine how lovely the area was back then...Warren, Hunterdon, and Sussex are the most beautiful areas in the state (which I guess isn’t saying much)...
‘Where did you move to (from NJ)? A red state? Another blue? Thanks.’
I moved about three hours west, to Lancaster County, Pa...a solid red county in a generally conservative state that is dominated in national elections by corrupt city Democrats...nice enough place, but I’m itching to move south...
I graduated East Orange H.S. IN 1958. Small world. Are they still here? Warren County is still a beautiful place. If you have to be in N.J.
Yes Hunterdon is not so rural anymore and only partial Republican....there is garbage everywhere.....Along 78, 173, 31 and of course the famous “We love Muzzies” signs all over Clinton and beyond...Haven’t shopped in that town for years and I use to love going there....never again.
‘I graduated East Orange H.S. IN 1958. Small world.’
indeed...seems like E.O. has gone downhill since then...
‘Are they still here?’
they have all passed on...my sister lives in New Mexico...
yes it is...I bicycled throughout Hunterdon and Warren, once I rode to Hackettstown from my hometown of New Providence, in Union County; the hills were brutal...
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