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Republicans seem to have this inherent allergy to anything 'liberal' whereas most Democrats don't really seem to care one way or the other if a given location swings liberal or conservative so long as it suits their needs.
Source: Personal observations and experience. There will of course always be exceptions to the rule but you'd have to go interview every single liberal-leaning person who moved to a more conservative place to be sure.
Democrats are fleeing housing and other COL prices, it has nothing to do with politics. And urban folk tend to be more "open", including openness to moving, traveling, and adapting to new cultures. Of course, this isn't a rule.
I’m sure a part of that has to indirectly do with politics - things underlying that such as taxes and COL - but undertaking a move, IMHO rarely has to do with politics itself. I grew up in a lefty state, have lived in a righty one, and am planning to move to another lefty state. Politics aren’t much of why I did any of that.
Republicans seem to have this inherent allergy to anything 'liberal' whereas most Democrats don't really seem to care one way or the other if a given location swings liberal or conservative so long as it suits their needs.
Source: Personal observations and experience. There will of course always be exceptions to the rule but you'd have to go interview every single liberal-leaning person who moved to a more conservative place to be sure.
The problem is they come, they don't just bring their belongings, they bring their politics. When enough invade your city/state they vote in the same crap they ran from...they never seem to learn that it's their politics that are the problem.
The problem is they come, they don't just bring their belongings, they bring their politics. When enough invade your city/state they vote in the same crap they ran from...they never seem to learn that it's their politics that are the problem.
They show up in the south Dakota subreddit whining we don't want to mask up our kids in schools and let them give gender changing hormones to their 12 year olds. Why would I want to move to an overregulated state with high taxes and insane property costs?
I've moved many times in my life, from one side of the USA to another, and also from the USA to several other countries. Most of the time, my moves were job related. I never tried to figure out if I was moving to a place where one or the other political party had more control as the deciding factor for the move. Usually, I had no clue who was the governor or what political party had more control in another state.
In the early 1990s, I moved from San Francisco Bay Area to northern New Jersey on a job move. People in CA told me I was moving to a corrupt, polluted and crime-ridden place that would be terrible, although most had never lived in NJ or only driven along a stretch of the New Jersey Turnpike. Most of what they knew about NJ turned out to be way off track, and I enjoyed living in NJ a lot.
Same thing happened when I moved from CA to Auburn, Alabama for a job move in the late 1990s. People told me that Alabama was full of bible-thumping, poorly educated, racist rednecks and I would be miserable there. The summer heat and humidity would make me miserable. Sure, a few people fit the way-overblown stereotype, but the bulk of the people I worked with and encountered in day-to-day life were polite, pleasant, friendly and got along with their fellow citizens (of many races & backgrounds). The summer heat and humidity was sometimes grueling, but hey, with AC it was not so bad to deal with for a few months. At least there were green trees and no drought.
Only a tiny fraction of people get so worked up over politics that they uproot their entire lives to move to a place where they think they will be surrounded by like-minded people. Many times, it doesn't work out so well if politics was the main factor in their move because they are likely to be disappointed by something else in the new place.
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