It's actually a bad thing for the states who take in these "California tax/social issue refugees". These expats want the same perks of a spend, spend, spend government but refuse to pay for it by hiding their wealth in a low taxation state. Eventually California refugees will begin changing local, then state political views over time, bringing blue state values to red states they fled to - only without the $$$$$$ to pay for their imported nonsense. Californians will continue ruining what was a better run state government when they arrived - Texas being a prime example. 20 years ago if anyone in Austin suggested defunding the police, they would be railroaded out of town. Today, you are warned with billboards by the police unions that "you're on your own" and the State has threatened to intervene with their troopers to re-inforce law and order.
With so many imports from other states, these kinds of ideas are now considered acceptable by a majority. My guess is if you took a poll of Texans, Georgians, Montanan's or Floridians and compared "born and raised in state" views to those arriving within the last 10 years, you'd see a pretty wide divide in opinions on many issues. I'm old enough to remember when those in Idaho and Oregonian's would put up signs asking people not to sell homes to Californian's (Mid 1980's). Ask someone in Portland how things have changed since the late 1980's - if you can still find someone considered a "local". It's pretty clear from what we can see today via the news how things there have gone from good, to bad, to worse.
My .02c
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