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| How did California get so liberal so fast? |
| 2010-10-04 |
| Because the 21st-century economy is global and portable, residents and businesses have other options. Employers and educated people can uproot themselves, and they have been, fleeing the congestion, the traffic, the crumbling infrastructure, and the deficient schools. Between 1990 and 2000, 2 million more left the state than arrived from other states. Guess what was the predominate political persuasion of the 2 million leaving the state? Guess who replaced that 2 million deficit? The U.S. Census Bureau report noted that a number of states have benefited from California's woes: "199,000 of the 466,000 people who moved to Nevada during this time came from California.... Between 1995 and 2000, 644,000 people moved to Colorado from other states, led by 111,000 migrants from California." |
| Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
| #8 Promising poor people free sh*t is a proven method of getting elected. They are totally retarded and cannot remember 4 years back, so they keep voting for you every time you promise, even though you don't deliver. Chavez has made quite a career for himself using the exact same method. In caliphornia we have at least two blocks of voters that vote based solely on race, they elect the biggest crooks over and over again. And look at our choices, they are all SERIOUSLY flawed. |
| Posted by: bigjiim-CA 2010-10-04 20:38 |
| #7 Simple answer: All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing |
| Posted by: No I am The Other Beldar 2010-10-04 17:38 |
| #6 Also, perhaps the influx of you-know-who from south of you-know-what border overwhelmed the California positive migration to other states. Uhhhhhh, yeahhhhhhh. This is why I have such a big, big problem with the likes of Bush, McCain, Fiorina, etc., etc. Shot themselves in the foot, they did. Lost the biggest chunk of electoral votes they could possibly lose. Frickin' morons. But then, as I recall, and I was here at the time so I should, there was a very noticeable influx of people into California in the 1970s from places like New York, New Jersey, Michigan and, yes, Texas. Those were the license plates that I kept seeing. It seemed like there were New Yorkers all over the place. They drove up the cost of housing and the resulting building boom was shocking. Why, I can remember when you could drive up and down Interstate 5 in San Diego County without ever having to use your brakes. I can remember when this state gave you presidents like Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. But I'm guessing that, apart from the Texans (God love 'em), the majority of these new residents were kinda left leaning. What was I supposed to do? Stand at the border and shoot at them when they tried to come in? I've said it before to you Rantburgers in Nevada, Colorado and Arizona: When you see an ex-Californian taking up residence in your state, chances are he was from somewhere else before he was from California. So if you see them acting like New Yorkers it isn't necessarily the right thing to blame Californians. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-10-04 17:19 |
| #5 California is not as liberal as its elections would suggest. It is more accurate to say that California's political power has been concentrated into the hands of extreme liberals (teachers' unions, etc). These guys rely on public money and huge amounts of vote fraud to maintain their hold on that power (over 40% of ballots in CA are cast absentee, for example). As a result, genuine R's can't get elected and people who would otherwise be voting R register I or D instead. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2010-10-04 16:55 |
| #4 Undoubtedly some that infected and killed "the host" California moved on to infect other hosts. Also, perhaps the influx of you-know-who from south of you-know-what border overwhelmed the California positive migration to other states. |
| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2010-10-04 15:12 |
| #3 Seems like most of the Californians who left went to 1) Las Vegas, 2) Phoenix, and 3) Denver, and all those places have been getting a lot more Lib/Dem over that time frame, so California wasn't preferentially losing Republicans as a mechanism for getting liberal so fast. Unless even non-liberal Californians turned out to be more liberal than the average of other localities. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-10-04 14:54 |
| #2 It's been getting liberal for a looong time. Got too liberal for me after a mere 25 years. Too bad because it is a beautiful and wonderful place to live. But not with the government they have and the citizens who are co-dependents. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-10-04 14:13 |
| #1 A basic principle of human behavior is that 'you get more of what you subsidize'. What has California subsidized and what have they not? Rewarding non-productivity and punishing productivity gets you California. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-10-04 14:04 |