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.
I saw the same thing growing up in the Hudson Valley region of NY. When I was a kid, it was considered the “sticks”, we still had lots of farmland etc. Then the exodus from NYC happened and the folks who were priced out of Rockland and Westchester Counties came North, with them came the demand for things like, sidewalks on every street, paving of all roads and increased public services. Of course, with that came the increase in taxes and our reliably “Red” counties became purple.
Don't bring your failed liberal politics down South!
The big problem with people leaving these Blue States for Red States is they bring their Politics with them and they tend to turn their new States into the same kind of political junk yards they just left. They already did it to Oregon and Washington and keep an eye on North Carolina and Nevada as examples of this.
I saw a nice townhouse in Oxford but the taxes were 5000, I’m struggling with 2800 taxes and 419 a month in maintenance fees...Even Sussex seem’s expensive.....
This migration of Leftists into American states to avoid the consequences of their voting habits is as destructive to freedom as the migration of Muslims into the USA.
We can always repay the “kindness” that they have shown to us, when they show up in our communities.
Wisconsin blue?
Any reason to leave a blue sate is fine so long as they leave the blue state “stupidity” behind. Several western states have been ruined by liberals dragging their bad blue state baggage of ideas to a new location, only to demand those same ideas be incorporated into their new locations. It is the same as those who migrate to America and demand the rules and laws of their prior countries be allowed here in the U.S. Make the “state” migrators sign an agreement to abide by their new (red) states rules or stay out. If it’s not broke, don’t fix it.
When I lived in Louisiana, I ran into a Yankee transplant from Ohio. She started on a rant about how "You People" in LA are so racist, and why don't you just get along with black people, why do you have to hate, blah, blah, blah. I stared at her for a second and then my brain actually worked enough to dredge up two words which I said at her before turning and walking away: Marge Schott.
INVASION!! STAY WHERE YOU ARE!! OR don’t bring your crappy politics with you!
There is something squirrely with their metrics. DC's population is growing and is becoming more affluent. The lower income folks are being pushed out by gentrification. (Good riddance to the gangbangers, who should all move to Baltimore where they will fit right in. But it's a real problem when good, solid blue collar people as well as the teachers, police officers, young professionals with less than six figure incomes, etc. can't afford to live in the city.)
What, exactly, is this survey measuring? And in the DC area, are they looking at the city or the metro area, which is a very different animal?
York County, just across the state line in SC is getting more and more northern transplants.
Yeh they are all moving to GA and then voting to try to turn us into the chithole they left behind.
That's because you (incorrectly) believe that liberals like the disastrous results of their moronic policies any more than conservatives do. They don't, but they never seem to be able to make the connection between their politics and the decline of everything around them...
Sadly, you’re right. We’re seeing this now with those stupid SJWs in Charlotte. They ruin everything they touch.
But there is a building boom going on with lots of CA plates showing up to buy.
That’s because union goonz do all the paving and sidewalking. :-)
Paving and sidewalks aren’t bad things to have, IMO, as long as the option exists to have people other than union goonz doing the jobs. #RightToWork
That’s a good one. Below-80-IQ racist knuckleheads aren’t found only in the South. Besides, Louisiana, like my state of Maryland, stopped being a segregationist craphole long ago.
BTW, how are segregationist and liberal policies alike? They both involve big government.
This is NOT good news!
They come to your state and vote for Leftist morons who begin mucking up YOUR life too.
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