Ooops, left out the author...Jon Caldara. Any way to add that? Thank you.
I was going to ping you Beaversmom.
Then I saw you posted it LOL.
I will ping Grace instead :)
Last December?
When California was flooded with flower-children and other free-thinkers from across the nation, it was California’s fault.
When California was gorged with illegal aliens, it was California’s fault.
When these folks began to harm California, it was California’s fault.
Now when places like Colorado go South, it’s California’s fault.
Colorado is Colorado, and every bit of blame that was leveled at California, can now be leveled at Colorado for not controlling their state. Hey, that’s what folks said about California.
If it was and still is California’s fault, it’s also Colorado’s fault.
This article is exactly right. The cost of living and real estate has a very California feel to it as well the last year or so.
Forty five years ago the most popular bumper sticker in Colorado was...
DON’T CALIFORNICATE COLORADO!
Well, it has been.
Fabulous writing, for once, that provides concrete details of its thesis which explain why the big move out of CO. Where’s the next Colorado going to be? Texas, Tennessee, Idaho? Where are these folks going?
He’s right when it comes to the Front Range. All urban areas become lousy places to live eventually. A lot of the small towns are still great though, especially on the western slope.
I am native born Californian and I am still here (please don’t blame me, I voted for Reagan as Governor and President). At least 10% of the people that I graduate from grammar school, one of my brothers, and several other California natives that I have known have all moved to Colorado.
I remember seeing a bumper sticker near Cortez in the mid-80s reading “Don’t Californicate Colorado”.
Eventually we all become California. So goes the nation.
No, I would say that used to be California, but the nut jobs have destroyed that. The author fails to mention the legalization of marijuana and what effects that has had on his state. I dont think it can be discounted. And the Colorado liberal streak goes back decades - they declined the 1976 Winter Olympics. At Aspen, you have the super-rich driving out the merely rich. The Colorado the author cites... did it even exist the last fifty years?
So they finally split CA...
Rename it Colofornia!
I grew up on the Western Slope and loved it. But I am looking at Utah or Idaho as retirement draws near. Can’t wait to leave California.
Sorry that title has already been taken by New Mexico now known as The Peoples Republic Of Eastern California.
bump to that!
The marijuana is a draw for ex-Californians.
Noteworthy that James Dobson’s Focus on the Family moved from a Los Angeles suburb to Colorado Springs because it saw California as becoming more intolerant and hostile to Christians and family values. It looks like California belatedly followed them.
I spent my junior high days in Littleton just south of Denver (suburb where the Columbine High School massacre took place) in the late 1960s in a sprawling ranch house between the distant South Platte River on one side and the lush mountains on the other.
My sister relocated to the hogback southwest of Denver back in the 1980s and the land of that big ranch home had been subdivided into numerous homes with an artificial fishing pond added onto the property. The Centennial horse race track was gone and much of the sprawling land around the house had been built up with homes.
To me, the charm was lost then. The open western charm has vanished, replaced by suburban sprawl. If you want to reclaim that lifestyle, best to move to Wyoming, Idaho or Montana but they, too, are working through their own California invasion.
In Iowa we are actually advertising in Chicago to bring us your welfare dependent people. It is our own fault but it sure isn’t how we voted.