Americans Are Fleeing Progressive Governors Vowing #Resistance—to Red States | Opinion

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Posted on 11/25/2024 12:46:08 PM PST by TigerClaws

rogressive governors of the blue states of California, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts have vowed to resist or fight against Trump 2.0. New Jersey governor Murphy said he would "fight to the death." Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis have formed a nonpartisan group focused on countering "threats of autocracy" and note "they're talking to other Democrats and Republicans about joining the effort, which will have its own staff and researchers." The resistance is focused on climate action, deportations, limiting gun rights, and reproductive freedom.

These efforts are misdirected. The surest sign is that Americans are fleeing from the places these governors and their #Resistence reign—and fleeing to red states where policies like those proposed by Trump have won out. For the past 30 years, progressive policies have fueled a mass exodus of the citizens of California, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts, whether with high-, middle-, or blue collar incomes. From 1990 to 2021, net domestic migration fleeing their states has totaled 13 million, as reported by the IRS.

Meanwhile, the red states of Florida, Texas, North Carolina, Arizona, Tennessee, Nevada, and South Carolina have had net in-migration of 13 million over the same period. https://heat.aeihousingcenter.org/migration https://heat.aeihousingcenter.org/migration

Policies fueling this blue state exodus include out-of-control public pensions and other spending, a plethora of ineffective and expensive subsidized housing programs, ineffective public schools, opposition to school choice, high crime, unaffordable housing, excessive taxes of all types, and rising levels of homelessness.

It is no coincidence that these five states are the ones with the highest levels of net out-migration over the last 30 years.

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Dems move from the sh*thole states they create and then ... vote for those same policies in states like Colorado, Arizona, etc. Stuck on stupid.

1 posted on 11/25/2024 12:46:08 PM PST by TigerClaws

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