nosuchreality said:
Where they are going are turning blue.
Not so much...
The narrative is that liberals are moving from blue states to red states and will eventually turn them blue. But as we?ve learned, if the talking heads are talking, they?re most likely lying. So, let?s examine what they?re saying.
A look at Idaho?s growth data reveals that California was indeed the big culprit -- but not alone. Based on 2018 migration data from the census bureau:
26.3% came from California. If Nevada were a body of water, we?d have had a boat-people crisis.
18.7% came from Washington state.
8.3% came from Utah. It must be due to Romney embarrassment.
5.9% came from Oregon. Even legal cannabis didn?t convince people that Antifa is mostly peaceful.
5.2% came from Texas. Texas is also growing and it?s starting to burst at the seams.
In 2016 Donald Trump won Idaho with 59.2% of the vote. After adding tens of thousands of new residents, mostly from California and Washington, the Donald won Idaho with 63.9% of the vote in 2020 -- and there wasn?t even the slightest hint of election fraud here. With our supposed slide into the embrace of Democrats, Trump increased his margin of the vote by almost 5%.
Between 2013 and 2019, the percentage of voters who registered as Republican went from 32.4% to 50.8%. Democrats added 52,300 voters to their rolls, but Republicans added a whopping 200,000 to theirs! Idahoans are becoming more engaged in politics, and their political proclivity is clearly conservative.
The reality is that conservative states are becoming more conservative, and they are gaining political clout at the same time. The people moving about the country aren?t missionaries going forth to spread socialism, any more than those fleeing Cuba in the last century were trying to bring communism to Florida. They?re escaping the blue states in search of the America of their youth. The America in which the only limit on what they can accomplish is their imagination and willingness to work. They?re political refugees.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/06/the_great_conservative_migration.html
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