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How voters fleeing California turn other
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Posted By: 4250Luis, 2/10/2026 8:22:51 PM

Americans of all groups –– young and old, rich and middle-class, the college-educated and not –– are fleeing California. Conservatives are leaving in droves. The state will become even more progressive and even more committed to the self-destructive policies that are driving people out in the first place. But this exodus might have a saving grace: It might make surrounding states more conservative, right? Well, this has yet to play out favorably for Republicans in some nearby states, including, for example, Arizona.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: ldb51 2/10/2026 8:37:09 PM (No. 2067230)
Leftists have a "feeling" for what they don't like, and how to run away from it - deep down it might be what a lot of the sane among us don't want either. BUT they have no self-awareness, no "intellectual hygiene", and no concept of how to accomplish anything positive. So, they run away from the damage they have caused, and carry their insanity with them. Much like a social animal fouls its nest until it can't stand the filth, and then moves on to establish its toilet somewhere cleaner. Relocate, defecate, repeat.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: downnout 2/10/2026 8:41:57 PM (No. 2067233)
They’re like locusts - destroy their home then move on to another green pasture and destroy it - then move on to another green pasture………
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Reply 3 - Posted by: whyyeseyec 2/10/2026 8:59:51 PM (No. 2067238)
Fleeing California is like exporting cancer, and expecting it to not metastasize.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: MickTurn 2/10/2026 9:30:50 PM (No. 2067255)
I have heard this same thing. Most Lefties won't LEAVE they are in their form of Heaven spelled HELL! Besides in Texas bad things happen to Bad PEOPLE!
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DVC 2/10/2026 9:36:13 PM (No. 2067261)
It never works to do anything but wrecking the 'receiving' states. Leftists are too stupid to realize that the reason the place they leave is crap is because of their voting. And they keep voting for leftist pols, wrecking their new state. Typhoid Mary would be proud of them.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: bpl40 2/10/2026 10:08:41 PM (No. 2067270)
Ditto #3. From all blue states - California, New York, Boston, they are like Metastasizing cancer. They don’t seem to realize that it is their politics that has ruined the places they are leaving.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: JHHolliday 2/10/2026 11:13:01 PM (No. 2067280)
Like the people fleeing their own countries to move here from the s-holes they created. It took years of blood and treasure to build this country into the greatest on earth, and mass immigration will ruin it in a matter of years. Just like the movie line in "Field of Dreams"...' Build it, and They Will Come,' and millions are coming.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: john56 2/10/2026 11:27:49 PM (No. 2067286)
As my native Texan wife often says , Texas needs a border wall. Around its northern, western and eastern borders.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: feduptexan 2/11/2026 12:44:20 AM (No. 2067294)
I refer to this as "Californication".... seems entirely appropriate to me.
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