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Escape From NY & LA: The Exodus From Blue
Cities And States Is Simply Staggering

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Posted By: AmericaFirstAlways, 4/1/2022 9:58:48 AM

California counties and metropolitan centers saw some of the largest population declines during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data released this week from the U.S. Census Bureau.” The report noted that some declines in California’s counties are attributable to international migration losses during the pandemic, with California being home to 41.4% of the counties that saw these losses. Other experts say that the rise of remote work and a desire to flee coronavirus infection centers played a role in population dips across the state. When the pandemic hit, thousands either stayed in place or sought out ’safe harbors,’ to get away from disease centers.

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Why would anyone want to live in a blue state right now?

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Reply 1 - Posted by: sunshinehorses 4/1/2022 10:04:48 AM (No. 1116358)
No I wouldn't want to live in a blue state, but I sure don't want all those idjits coming to MY state either.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: winmag 4/1/2022 10:18:56 AM (No. 1116371)
They leave the cesspool they created and then try to turn their new state into a cesspool.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: anniebc 4/1/2022 10:21:46 AM (No. 1116375)
It's also very disturbing. I wish we could check party affiliation at our red state borders.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: anniebc 4/1/2022 10:23:06 AM (No. 1116377)
They also come down South and overbid on houses since their boxes up North cost so much. I can't imagine what it's like now that brandon has torn up the housing market.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Sandpiper 4/1/2022 10:28:59 AM (No. 1116384)
The conservatives living in Cali have left in droves. The Covid lockdown finally made it so untenable that the effort and sacrifice of moving was better than remaining. Some liberals are moving out, yes, but overwhelmingly all of the people I have known who have left the state are conservative. Also - they are usually native- born Californians. I am one. It has gotten so bad that the leader of my church had a special meeting for the state of California and essentially said to the members, “It is OK to stay. God will bless you if you do.” My California real estate agent (also conservative), told me last month that all she is doing is moving conservatives out of my old neighborhood, not liberals. Everyone is moving out of state. She has not sold a house in the neighborhood to a single conservative. All new move-ins are liberal. How does she know? When you live and do business under-cover as a conservative in a very liberal area you HAVE to be able to tell the difference.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: DVC 4/1/2022 10:35:42 AM (No. 1116399)
Unfortunately, it is likely that they will bring their dysfunctional, leftist, destructive voting habits along with them to their new location, to ruin that place like they ruined the previous place.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 4/1/2022 10:38:19 AM (No. 1116403)
Turns out people are much nicer elsewhere.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Winstonsmith 4/1/2022 10:50:25 AM (No. 1116422)
Interesting article, but the jabs at Tucker Carlson were not relevant to the story. Tucker Carlson routinely mentions California, Governor Gavin, and the issue of dealing with our own problems in the USA first.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Winstonsmith 4/1/2022 10:57:58 AM (No. 1116428)
California is about 35% Republican, yet the gerrymandering has given us 95% Democrat congressmen/women. If we all left California it wouldn’t change anything. California conservatives have no power on the state or national level. We have some great conservative cities that are being targeted as we speak.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: DVC 4/1/2022 11:01:30 AM (No. 1116434)
Home prices here going crazy in the last year or so, folks from high home price states coming here and dramatically overpaying, driving prices crazy. Fools and their money, quickly parted.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: lefthanddan 4/1/2022 11:17:03 AM (No. 1116456)
I've heard this referred to a The Great Re-Sort. People wanting to live with people who think the way they do. I'm in Wisconsin and we are battling to take our government back. School boards, local alderman, judges. Problem is, the higher in the chain you get, the more resistance to Liberty you find. State politicians have not acted decisively on election malfeasance despite the evidence and screams from the public. I'm looking at Tennessee or Carolinas for the winter, but will fight with my neighbors to move Wisconsin right. It's not Repub or Dem. It's Right or Left (Wrong).
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Reply 12 - Posted by: chance_232 4/1/2022 11:24:22 AM (No. 1116470)
The two smartest decisions that I have ever made was to leave LA in 1996 and New York in 2000. I moved to rural Georgia and have not since had to pay confiscatory taxes or fees. I have not, in 22 years been subject to a lunatic leftist politician....until 2021. I have never in my life been more free from regulations, processes, procedures etc etc in my life. Most of the idiocy that I'm subjected too these days originate at the federal level.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Dr. Constant 4/1/2022 11:40:02 AM (No. 1116489)
According to one video blogger in Hong Kong, it has been losing nearly 50,000 people a month over the last 3 or 4 months. Many of them are gone for good as the UK has relaxed immigration requirements. It is not just US left-wing cities.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: EJKrausJr 4/1/2022 12:27:50 PM (No. 1116547)
There is a problem however. Those escaping from the Blue States bring their politics with them. They expect the same nanny state actions in the Red Free States. Solution, stay home and suffer what you voted for.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Trump'sCousin 4/1/2022 1:02:07 PM (No. 1116590)
How I wish it was the other way around. We live in Assachusetts. What a complete thrill or would be to see a TSUNAMI of American Patriots overwhelm the corrupt degenerate systems in blue states with good, solid, common sense America loving patriots! Fill the homes, businesses, school boards, public offices with constitutional patriots. Give them a taste of their own medicine!
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Reply 16 - Posted by: DVC 4/1/2022 1:10:42 PM (No. 1116604)
Sorry, #16, it's not likely that any conservative person would want to move to a high tax, horrible gun laws, high cost homes, high crime, super controlling state. Smart people leave that, never move towards it.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Trump'sCousin 4/1/2022 1:11:37 PM (No. 1116605)
I live in Assachusetts. ANYONE moving from a blue state to a red state should have to be sponsored by a conservative family before being allowed to move to that state. They should not be allowed to vote for 5 years for ANYTHING. They should not be allowed to run for public office of any kind for 10 years. New England was RUINED by Facists moving into New England over the last several decades. We live in the western part of the state in a small town at the foot of the Berkshires. 35 years ago it was very conservative, Republican. The Facists, degenerates and weirdos have been moving in from their cesspools and now it is mostly leftist. It's stomach turning. They crap where they eat. They ruin everything they touch. They have ruined this little town of 1200 souls. Henry Knox dragged the cannons from Ticonderoga conderoga to Boston right past our home. He must be spinning in his grave to see what has become of us.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: doctorfixit 4/1/2022 6:38:51 PM (No. 1116881)
No small part of of the left's War on Fuel is a war on personal ownership and mobility. Liberals want everyone trapped in rabbit cages in their s--hole cities. Democrat cities should burn to the ground.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: mifla 4/2/2022 7:02:57 AM (No. 1117220)
Just a suggestion. Let's do a swap. If you want to leave a blue state, you can trade places with an illegal immigrant who just entered the country. He comes here, you go to his country or origin.
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