“Tens of millions of Americans made the move from blue states to red states during the pandemic but it has had virtually no impact on the political landscape whatsoever, analysis reveals.

Spiraling crime and strict lockdowns in Democratic blue states led to people leaving liberal cities in droves to head towards sunnier climates in the red states of the south, not to mention a lower cost of living and taxes.

In what was one of the largest mass migrations of this century, 46 million people moved in 2021-22 with the red states of Florida, Texas and the Carolinas gaining the most, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The states that lost the most residents are almost all blue, led by California, New York and Illinois.

And yet, despite so many blue state residents moving to southern red states the political demographics barely shifted.

Although puzzling at first glance, the reason is simple: the red states were simply attracting GOP voters in the first place.

Like-minded individuals finding their own kind in southern Republican communities. …”

DailyMail article:
https://mol.im/a/13120319

I strongly suspect that the migration of people from blue to red states is more a matter of conservatives / Republicans escaping from the blue states. So it was for me anyway, when I left Oregon for Idaho a little over a year ago. So the colors of both states stay the same or maybe get a little deeper. IOW, the divide between red and blue Americans is getting wider and deeper.

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Originally posted by Expert308:
I strongly suspect that the migration of people from blue to red states is more a matter of conservatives / Republicans escaping from the blue states.

During the 2018 election cycle, the Cruz campaign estimated that the split between Republicans and Democrats that moved from CA leaned red, but who knows. Approx. 800,000 CA people have moved to Texas in the last 10 years and to think all of them are commies is stupid (last time I checked, I ain't commie).

But the main problem in Texas is that Republicans tend to stay home on election day; in 2020, 11 million voters turned out, but 6 million registered voters stayed home, the vast majority of them Republicans. On the radio last year, a Republican Party leader addressed this, stating that complacency is a problem with the party. In the 2020 election, Trump narrowly beat Biden in Texas, but down ballot, the percentages were higher for other Republicans; in Texas, there are Republicans who do not like Trump, including guys like Chip Roy. In the current election cycle, RINOs are the big targets in my county, and across the state. IMO, the RINOs are a problem, Cornyn the biggest one.

The Californians in My Texas Hill Country neighborhood consist of both camps. The Lib faction are determined to bring their blue state visions here and sneer at the barbarian Texas rednecks around them.

make their lives miserable and hell, they will go back to a blue state

you don't need to be hospitable to invaders

From Texas Monthly

https://www.texasmonthly.com/n...primaries-democrats/

"The Best Way for Many Texas Democrats to Make Their Voices Heard? Vote in the Republican Primary."

It’s hard to imagine a world in which Texas Republicans reject Donald Trump as their nominee for president in the March GOP primary. Despite mounting criminal charges and his attempt to overturn the last election, which he lost, the former president has a sixty percentage point polling lead over his nearest competitor among likely Republican voters. But in Texas, not everyone who votes in the GOP primary needs to be a “Republican voter.” Take Zach Hinds, for instance: a Democrat in Arlington. He told me excitedly earlier this month that he had hatched a plan: he will cast a ballot for Trump’s chief foe, former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, assuming she hasn’t dropped out by the start of early voting, on February 20.

“Priority number one for me is to not have Trump in office. Even if there was a Democratic presidential primary that was actually competitive, I’d probably still do crossover voting,” Hinds said. By that phrase, the thirty-year-old engineer was referring to the practice in which Texas voters are able to choose which primary they want to vote in—even if that primary doesn’t align with their ideological preferences. Texas is one of sixteen states with an “open primary,” in which voters show up to the polls and get to choose between taking a Democratic or Republican ballot.

Yet.

Just spitballin' here, but maybe the very act of leaving CA, IL. and NY raises the IQ?

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
make their lives miserable and hell, they will go back to a blue state

you don't need to be hospitable to invaders

Hopefully Floridians don’t do this to me when I move from Massachusetts. As noted, the red people are leaving the blue states. Treat them kindly, they are allies.

I'm a die hard conservative Republican and am stuck in California for the foreseeable future for a number of reasons.

Everyone I know that has moved from this state to ID, TX, or FL (which has been a LOT of people) in the last few years have been just like me.

I would venture to guess that most Californians that have moved to your state have been conservative. When I was a kid my county was solidly Republican. Then it was about 50/50. With a generation of people that have died off and the exodus of people from 2020 to now it's basically solidly Democrat (which completely sucks).

While I understand your ire, before you bash Californians that have moved to your locale, realize they're more likely to hurt my state by leaving and help yours.

All the Californian's that moved here around Boise Idaho have been very conservative in their voting.

HOWEVER.. the Idahoans around here in Boise still hate them because they are all a bag of dicks to interact with. They are so used to being entitled Karens from their lives previously in California, they bring the attitude here and think just because they vote conservative they aren't dicks. Well unfortunately, they still are dicks!

Tell that to my friends in Colorado

I think I've mentioned it before, but it bears repeating. I have a couple from California that I've made into very close friends. They were die hard dems when they got here (originally from Chicago) and I'll just say they both have the same chromosomes as Nancy Pelosi. Ok, so as of last Thanksgiving, they've both got their concealed carry license and have registered republican, we even went to early voting and they haven't smiled like that in a long time.

They traded in a perfectly good Subaru for an F150. I'm thinking its environmental, because while I don't have them watching NewsMax on the daily, they've stopped watching the MSDNC bs. Ya'll would like them, except they are Cubbies fans.

This is actually good to hear. I thought liberalism would spread like a cancer and end up ruining the red states and eventually the entire country.

Idk if they are changing the voting patterns, but they sure as hell are bringing their terrible, rude, and rushed driving!

Are the illegals a way to keep California from losing electoral votes as people flee the damages caused by Marxist progressives?