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| Calculating the Californication - Will migrating Golden State residents bring left-wing politics to their new homes? Maybe not. |
| 2020-02-14 |
| [City Journal] Beset by high housing costs, crippling taxes, astronomical gas prices, wildfires, and rolling blackouts, Californians are heading for the exits. That’s sparking anxiety in places where these Golden State migrants are relocating. A mayoral candidate in Boise, Idaho, recently suggested building a wall to keep out Californians, who account for 60 percent of domestic migration into the growing state. The election of increasingly progressive candidates in Colorado sparked talk there of the "Californication" of the Centennial State. Early last year, the Dallas News described the "California-ing" of North Texas, citing a study showing that 8,300 Californians move to the area yearly. Texas governor Greg Abbott launched a petition titled "Don’t California My Texas." Much of this anxiety revolves around fears that the migrants will transform the politics and culture of the places that they’re moving to‐bringing an appetite for big, intrusive government. But a new survey suggests that, while plenty of people are looking to leave California, many are fleeing the state’s high costs and politics and may not be interested in voting for the same things in their new homes. The poll, by the Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, found that 52 percent of California residents are considering migrating. As these polls go, that’s exceptionally high, putting California in the same category as some other states with very unhappy residents. A recent poll in New Jersey, for instance, found that about 44 percent of its people are looking to depart, while 50 percent of Connecticut residents indicated a desire to leave the state in a 2014 Gallup poll, the highest figure among any state at that time. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #18 Abu yes I was born and raised in SF in the 50's until 10 y/o. I go back to visit family and friends occasionally and I don't recognize the place. It's a dangerous and scary place these days. My dad moved our family to Oregon due to the influx of migrants and the city not being as safe as it once was, it was changing even back then. I moved as a young adult to Colorado for the skiing in the 70's and working as a nurse I witnessed 1st hand the anchor baby program, then the Vietnam refugees in the 70-80's were and are good people and more recently the Somalian refugees all relocated in Colorado. Liberals moving into my state is a scary thing makes me feel like it'll never go red again. |
| Posted by: Jan 2020-02-14 20:48 |
| #17 Yep - native San Diegan from birth. Look for Darrell Issa to replace our ethically-challenged (what a waste) Duncan D. Hunter in the 50th. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-02-14 19:06 |
| #16 Jan, #13, that is exactly how I felt back in the 1970s when New Yorkers were flocking to California. Back then a lot of people were migrating to California; Texans, New Jerseys and of course lots of Mexicans. California is not the state it was in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Then in the 1990s Bill Clinton sat back and let millions of Mexicans enter the country and most of them came to California. In true Democrat fashion, Clinton didn't care if it was legal or not. Some of us remember when it was a red state that gave you Presidents Nixon and Reagan. Some of us... |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2020-02-14 18:23 |
| #15 Austin has always had two things working against it - the State Capitol, with all its related swampiness, and the University. It is a nice place to visit - I have two grandchildren there. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2020-02-14 16:26 |
| #14 Californians ruined my beloved Austin. Now it's a hipster hellhole. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy 2020-02-14 16:09 |
| #13 Californians selling their expensive homes coming to Colorado with way more money than the locals allowing them to buy their homes outright with lots of extras. Buying rural property with acreage and developing it way above the average home since you have lots of money changes a neighborhood. Happy with the cheaper gas prices and everything else they throw their money around with abandon. The cost of a home in Colorado is half the price practically of an average California home and even more if they move from SF. These Californians changed many rural areas in the Rockies with their money flooding these neighborhoods and their liberal ideas which changed our state to purple/blue. It devastated our last election with electing Democrat Governor Polis and Democrat Congress critters along with horrible state amendments that were passed. It started a nightmare that has been never ending. Previous to the elections our signs promoting our Republican candidates were continually knocked down and stolen they only remained up for a few hours if that and cars with any Conservative bumper stickers or Tea Party ID were and still are often keyed, mine has been keyed, I wear mine with pride, I haven't repaired it. Not to forget their liberal influence in our schools/PTSA along with changing rezoning/regulations. Liberals just saturate and own places almost taking over it's awful. Conservatives have no one in Congress to fight against the many liberal policies getting passed and it drives many of us nuts. You can go testify but it's never taken seriously, we're looked upon as the token Conservative that they have to put up with. Not to forget those moving here for the Marijuana being legalized, whether you use it or not you have to admit it does seem to attract more liberals than Conservatives, just sayin'. My daughter lives in The 'Republic of Boulder' as she went to CU Boulder and stayed. She has been surrounded by lefties and I'm sad to say has taken on many of their views. She had Ward Churchill along with many other Liberal professors, Boulder is another world. A side note, my son is in the military and has strong Conservative views thank God, he helps me keep my sanity. How they can be so different is beyond me. Outside influence is definitely a big factor and our Universities suck at that. I worry for Senator Cory Gardner, lots of out of state money has been flowing into Colorado and we're seeing a real hard anti-Gardner push with clever tactics that are twisting the truth against him in many frequent commercials. Trump is coming to Colorado Springs -YAY- for a rally and look out, me and a few of my friends are going on a road trip to support him and Gardner. I hope Trumps rally helps him. Getting off my soapbox now sorry for the rant but this is a big deal to me. If we lose Gardner we've really lost |
| Posted by: Jan 2020-02-14 14:53 |
| #12 It isn't California refugees causing this, its liberal ideas that are making liberal enclaves insane. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2020-02-14 12:18 |
| #11 I went thru Boulder in the early 1970s. It appeared to be ravaged then. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2020-02-14 11:56 |
| #10 Colorado disproves that argument. It is currently being ravaged by the locust effect. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2020-02-14 11:47 |
| #9 I've heard the argument that people who move out of California most likely are different and won't taint other areas. Others take the view that those escaping from California are like the Coronavirus. I dunno, I have too few data points to decide conclusively. Besides, there are good people in California, like everywhere else. It is America and people can move where they want to. Just having some fun with this. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2020-02-14 11:32 |
| #7 California to move 700 death row inmates from San Quentin to other prisons with rehab and work programs - provoking outrage from victims' families |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-02-14 11:16 |
| #6 Austin, Houston, need anymore examples? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-02-14 10:07 |
| #5 I think most Golden State Residents leaving are leaving because they lean conservative and can't take it anymore. Washington State with its liberal policies created its own woke suck-hole to draw in liberals from throughout the nation. It leaned hard left at about the same time California did. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2020-02-14 09:42 |
| #4 Simple (but unconstitutional) fix - if you've moved to another state from CA, those states should pass laws barring you from voting at all for five years. |
| Posted by: Raj 2020-02-14 08:35 |
| #3 30 years ago, Washington State natives were worried about what the influx of Bay Area Californians to "The Silicon Rain Forest" would do to their way of life.... See present-day Seattle for the answer. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2020-02-14 07:24 |
| #2 ..personally, I'd go back to the original 13 stars so people won't forget what the got and how they got it. The Left shouldn't object, they want to do away with the states and the Electoral College anyway. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-02-14 06:34 |
| #1 Makes you wonder if in 20 years or so if there will still be 50 stars on Old Glory. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-02-14 04:33 |