How voters fleeing California turn other
states blue
New York Post,
by
John Yoo
&
Linda Denno
Original Article
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.
43 people like this.
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………
59 people like this.
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.
43 people like this.
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!
14 people like this.
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.
32 people like this.
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.
22 people like this.
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.
20 people like this.
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.
20 people like this.
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.
21 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Highlander 2/11/2026 6:00:37 AM (No. 2067313)
It’s what happened to California in the sixties. All the looney snowbirds from the east coast moved in.
17 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
chumley 2/11/2026 6:13:12 AM (No. 2067320)
Californians, and New Yorkers for that matter, are infections that sicken the places where they infest. You try to be friendly and all they do is tell you how they did things in the place they fled. Then they vote and get into local office and start the systemic rot at a place that didnt have it before. They are usually less ugly than the 3rd world invaders, but thats about the only difference.
18 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
petrichor 2/11/2026 6:24:01 AM (No. 2067326)
At least the Dems kill their young so there will less and less of them.
14 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 2/11/2026 7:12:18 AM (No. 2067333)
As one who has seen this phenomenon up close, I can attest to the fact that Arizona did suffer from California migration however, I believe that for every conservative parent who “escaped” they brought with them leftist indoctrinated children who would carry their “learing” with them to get their voting cards. Arizonans despised the influx of Californians into their at that time “red” State as much as Californians loathed “Zonies” who carried conservative values into their “Sanctuary of Progressivism.”
There are also the cases in which a migrant California husband/wife leaning fiscally conservative and their spouse being more of a “feeling,” and more “thoughtful,” emotional leftist, who always lands on the side of the lying narrative of Democrat politicians, such as, “We need to feed our hungry, and take care of the homeless!” Yeah, those emoting types always fall for that line. It’s the question of how they propose to pay for it when the emoting types stop listening.
17 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
joew9 2/11/2026 8:10:32 AM (No. 2067353)
The blue state immigrants here in Georgia have come here with the idea that they are going to make the state a better place with their liberal ideals. And they have no idea that it's those ideals that messed up their state. They look down on native Georgians and treat them very rudely. Accusations of racism are abundant from these people. But when you get to know them you'll find they are more racist than even the most backwoods Georgia hermit. I was in Seattle in the 1980's and was stunned to hear the racism that was common there. I had never heard such language and ideas in my life in Georgia.
16 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
jimincalif 2/11/2026 8:21:21 AM (No. 2067355)
I remember taking a road trip to Colorado some 45 years ago and seeing many “Don’t Californicate Colorado” bumper stickers. Unfortunately it happened anyway. Now I find myself a California refugee living in Idaho where we, and many locals, are similarly concerned. Fortunately we, and most other California ex-pats I’ve met are more conservative than many Idahoans. We have the leftist Boise mayor, the north-end residents, the limousine liberals in Sun Valley, as well as leftist media (Idaho Statesman and local TV stations). As Trump likes to say, we’ll see what happens.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
czechlist 2/11/2026 8:23:49 AM (No. 2067356)
In the '90s and aughts my job required frequent travel to Colorado. Early on the natives complained about we Texans vacationing in Colorado but by the end of my visits their vitriol toward Texans had been redirectec to Californians.
"At least Texans go home!!"
9 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
Italiano 2/11/2026 8:51:10 AM (No. 2067367)
We moved from San Diego to NW Washington last October. We were glad to be rid of Newsom, but we found out that the gun-grabbing clown they have up here may be even worse. Although we're two hours away from Seattle in a fairly conservative area, that dingbat they elected mayor last year may be the nuttiest mayor in the country. Liberals spread faster than AIDS.
15 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
felixcat 2/11/2026 9:11:28 AM (No. 2067377)
The McCain clan didn't exactly help much to keep Az red in actual policy.
18 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
Howard Adams 2/11/2026 9:25:21 AM (No. 2067382)
You can see t-shirts that say "Don't Austin my Texas". Yes, Californians are coming to red states.
12 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 2/11/2026 9:37:30 AM (No. 2067388)
A Native Son of California, I left San Diego in 1974, when I joined the military. Periodic visits were nice, but not enough to pull me back. I thank God for not going back.
9 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
moebellini3 2/11/2026 11:20:28 AM (No. 2067435)
Democrats are running away from taxes, not their ideology. Their brains were fried a long time ago.
5 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
NotaBene 2/11/2026 12:23:39 PM (No. 2067468)
Karen Bass will be re-elected Mayor of Los Angeles and Ghana in June despite letting Pacific Palisades burn down through DEI in LAFD and LADWP. No justice in California. Progressives turned a natural paradise into purgatory for non-illegal aliens.
3 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
NYbob 2/11/2026 1:05:30 PM (No. 2067498)
Well, it IS a war. If the Republicans are afraid to fight, this is what you get. If millions of normal Americans do not vote, this is what you get. Look at the registered voters and the number of normal people who vote EVERY election, as in, your LOCAL and STATE elections. The rats vote, and if they don't have enough votes, they make them up, because Republicans and 'average' voters have done next to nothing for the last 50 years to stop the obvious voting fraud.
The big fog over all of this is the media and culture war, which has been won by rats. Too many RINOs and gutless Republicans are afraid or inept at confronting true communists like we see every single day on TV. Where is the take down of blatant lies? Where are prepared, confident and effective spokes people to educate the ill informed, or to expose the lies of the left? We are so far gone that when we have some one who is effective like Charlie Kirk, he is murdered in front of us and we tolerate people cheering for that. That is what losers do. One man on offense, is not going to save us.
4 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 2/11/2026 3:55:55 PM (No. 2067538)
Look what happened to the Peoples Republic of Colorado. What was once a state built on agriculture, mining, and oil and gas is now a welfare-ridden sanctuary state for the illegals. Direct result of a dim Governor and dim legislature who are elected by the Denver msm, low info voters, and the illegals.
2 people like this.
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