Thousand of blue state residents flock
to Idaho and they bring conservative
politics with them: data
Fox News,
by
Emma Coltan
Original Article
Posted By: 4250Luis,
12/11/2023 6:06:25 AM
Thousands of conservative-leaning Washington residents fled the deep blue state for neigboring Idaho, voter data published by the Gem State shows. Data published by the Idaho Secretary of State’s office shows that out of the nearly 119,000 people who recently moved to the state, 65% registered as Republicans, compared to just 12% registering as Democrats. The data, which was reviewed by Fox News Digital, show that out of the roughly 20,000 Americans who moved from Washington state to Idaho, 62% registered as Republicans, compared to 12% as Democrats, 24% as unaffiliated and 2% as "other."
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Penelope27 12/11/2023 7:49:54 AM (No. 1614873)
Hope they are truly Republican and tired of the blue state politics and not just registering to be able to vote in the primary against Trump…
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
cor-vet 12/11/2023 8:14:05 AM (No. 1614886)
You have to ask, why are those 12% dems leaving their liberal utopia for conservative Idaho? They have the paradise they've been voting for and stealing elections for. A better fit for them would be Oregon, where they would fit right in.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
planetgeo 12/11/2023 8:42:13 AM (No. 1614907)
#2, that 12% are either government workers heading to Boise, or academics/teachers. They carry their blue baggage wherever they go. Every red state has their islands of blue in the big cities and universities. Almost impossible to stamp them out.
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You should have heard how some candidates for mayor and city council in my town blew their own horns about their experience in California. Totally puts me off. I don't care how they did it back where they came from.
Idaho is plagued with these people.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
chumley 12/11/2023 10:00:16 AM (No. 1614950)
We've seen this before. Usually it is from New York or California. They move to a free(r) state and want to tell everyone how things were done back home. They act like missionaries rather than refugees.
Believe it or not, New Mexico was a great place to live 30 years ago, before the swarms of Californians graced everyone with their wisdom and voting patterns.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 12/11/2023 10:11:53 AM (No. 1614958)
Unfortunately, they bring their leftist wives and children with them. Colorado is a perfect case study in how leftists from California have ruined a state.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 12/11/2023 10:13:15 AM (No. 1614959)
Californians and New Yorkers have ruined Colorado. I imagine people from Washington pose the same danger.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Zigrid 12/11/2023 10:50:24 AM (No. 1614979)
Very interesting....now if they have sincere interest in their hearts is another story...or whether they hope to swing the state left/democratic is another story....
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Msquared112 12/11/2023 11:10:51 AM (No. 1614994)
This is more of the gradual mitosis of red and blue politics. Soon, as in Kurt Schlichter's various dystopian Kerry Turnbull novels, there will be only two countries: Red America for conservatives, and the "People's Republic" of blue voters. It's happening.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
danu 12/11/2023 12:23:12 PM (No. 1615040)
Too right, #5.
We hear foreign gangsters swept through NM cities to buy up nice real estate, and turn it into rubbish.
Other than professor Clements, it's unclear whether there is anyone left to make New Mexico great again.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Luandir 12/11/2023 12:50:27 PM (No. 1615067)
Trouble is, the Dems all settle in Boise, which is getting bluer each year. It could be Portland in a decade.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
udanja99 12/11/2023 12:50:28 PM (No. 1615068)
#5, there used to be a bumper sticker seen all over the South back in the 90’s which read, “We Don’t Care How You Do It Up North”. Maybe it’s time to bring it back.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Luandir 12/11/2023 12:51:53 PM (No. 1615070)
PS - Thanks for nothing, Fox. We'd rather keep this state a secret.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 12/11/2023 1:38:06 PM (No. 1615087)
#11 The libtard LGBTQ Boise Mayor is FROM Portland and on her way to making the city like the dump she left. She could be Gavin Nuisance's twin in politics.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 12/11/2023 1:50:37 PM (No. 1615094)
Reply 14 - Posted by: PrayerWarrior 12/11/2023 1:38:06 PM (No. 1615087)
#11 The libtard LGBTQ Boise Mayor is FROM Portland and on her way to making the city like the dump she left. She could be Gavin Nuisance's twin in politics.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Robert Jones 12/11/2023 1:51:36 PM (No. 1615095)
Remember when Virginia used to be a red state. Keep those liberal vermin where they belong. They helped put those jackass liberals in power in Oregon and elsewhere!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 12/11/2023 1:54:38 PM (No. 1615098)
Not buying it.
The vast majority are still leftists; They don't learn. Having fouled one nest, they will foul the next one. If they are registering as republicans, it is to get the farthest left republican candidates through the primaries, knowing that the natives of will elect a Republican.... They want to get a Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger type Republican in.
Within a generation, (probably within a decade) of moving the system left, they will drop the pretense of being 'Republicans' and switch back to Democrat.
Oh, I suppose a few of the leftist state refugees have learned their lessons and have become actual conservatives, but it has been my experience that California Refugees moving into my county have pulled it way left. In the last ten years we have gone from 77-80% voting for the Republican, to 63% in the last election.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
granny5 12/12/2023 10:08:22 AM (No. 1615644)
I live in a fast growing city in Southern Utah. The influx of people from Commiefornia has given us demands for pride flags to be flown in the city and a lawsuit forcing the acceptance of drag queen shows. We had a non-binary person running for City Council. When my daughter and her boys were visiting, I took them down to the town square to see the beautiful monument for the Gold Star families and had to walk through a LGBQT+ festival to get to it. These freaks move to conservative areas and immediately start working to turn it into the s**thole they moved away from. It's disgusting.
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