I can't for the life of me remember where I saw the data now, but there was a study I saw that back up your general points the recent wave of Californians being refugee types, same with New Yorkers. The study found that while both Leftist and Rightist are leaving those two states, their destinations are not the same. Essentially, the breakdown was that Left Wingers leaving Cali and NY were going to places like Oregon, Washington State, and Colorado, while Right Wingers leaving were going to Texas and Florida (with a smattering among smaller states).
I think that the risk of colonization comes in the form of Californian corporations moving themselves into other territory, and taking their horde of villaiens, vassals, and human pets with them to colonize blue cities in red states like Austin.
As it turns out, they are discovering a new problem on that particular front. Namely, their potential colonist dont want to go. For a prominent example, Disney has been moving a lot of its corporate infrastructure from Cali to Florida. Officially, its because of "better business policy", but considering the types currently running the company you know they wouldnt complain if it altered the political landscape. As proof of that, they wanted to move a lot of their people from Cali to follow these jobs. They even built housing and amenities that were tailor made for what your average bougie Californian would demand.
But they found out after they had already moved the jobs that these people were pissed. They utterly refused to move to that "fascist state" run by "the blood-soaked Death Sentence" (making DeSantis sound far too badass there), and demanded the jobs come back to Cali. In fact, they even turned the tables and started demanding Disney just shut down their stuff in Florida and move it to Cali, Oregon, Colorado, anywhere but Florida.
And at least from what it sounds like from people in the know, Disney is kind of stuck. Because they dont want to hire the likely more conservative local talent, but their vassals are starting a riot over the idea of having to move.
And it couldnt have happened to a better group of people.
The unfortunate part there is Colorado, which used to be a blood red state, but due to colonization efforts, has turned purple, and almost entirely blue. It shows that colonies are dangerous if they are allowed to take root.
If there's a silver lining: the ingress of blue voters who turned Denver (and thus Colorado) purple are disjointed weirdos whose political interest goes about as far as the ballot box. These people just want to smoke weed, do weird outdoorsy shit, and plan their next horrible tattoo.
The conservatives in CO are much more organized, and were able to push back against a lot of the mask and vaccine bullshit. I was in and out of the state kind of frequently over the past couple years and it was always a mix of liberal stupidity and red state common sense.
Don't sell them short. The Blue Voters are also infesting Apsen and Vail (and the general surrounding areas like Snowmass and Edwards). And those aren't just the dumb 20 something libshits. Those are the out of touch mega rich ones.
The fortunate part about that however is those people need even more working class to keep those cities running, and those people can't even hope to afford living anywhere close. So every nearby city/county grows even more red entrenched and populace to compensate.
Until the richies start driving them out of the minimal available real estate in the mountains too.
Right - I was very careful not to mention the big money in Aspen and Vail. That's where the CO DNC has power -- not in Denver where their voters nominally are.
I love Denver, too, so don't get me wrong. But the people there aren't that politically engaged.
California "right wing" is a different kind of thing than Texas right wing. A California republican would feel right at home with many Texas Democrats.
It is, however, a myth that Californians are turning the state purple. That's immigration from other countries.
It is, however, a myth that Californians are turning the state purple. That's immigration from other countries.
Even that is not necessarily true. Texas became slightly more blue in a few elections, but has been rapidly shifting back toward the red direction as of late. On top of vast swaths of the state that have never voted Republican for hundreds of years suddenly doing so.
I can't for the life of me remember where I saw the data now, but there was a study I saw that back up your general points the recent wave of Californians being refugee types, same with New Yorkers. The study found that while both Leftist and Rightist are leaving those two states, their destinations are not the same. Essentially, the breakdown was that Left Wingers leaving Cali and NY were going to places like Oregon, Washington State, and Colorado, while Right Wingers leaving were going to Texas and Florida (with a smattering among smaller states).
As it turns out, they are discovering a new problem on that particular front. Namely, their potential colonist dont want to go. For a prominent example, Disney has been moving a lot of its corporate infrastructure from Cali to Florida. Officially, its because of "better business policy", but considering the types currently running the company you know they wouldnt complain if it altered the political landscape. As proof of that, they wanted to move a lot of their people from Cali to follow these jobs. They even built housing and amenities that were tailor made for what your average bougie Californian would demand.
But they found out after they had already moved the jobs that these people were pissed. They utterly refused to move to that "fascist state" run by "the blood-soaked Death Sentence" (making DeSantis sound far too badass there), and demanded the jobs come back to Cali. In fact, they even turned the tables and started demanding Disney just shut down their stuff in Florida and move it to Cali, Oregon, Colorado, anywhere but Florida.
And at least from what it sounds like from people in the know, Disney is kind of stuck. Because they dont want to hire the likely more conservative local talent, but their vassals are starting a riot over the idea of having to move.
And it couldnt have happened to a better group of people.
The unfortunate part there is Colorado, which used to be a blood red state, but due to colonization efforts, has turned purple, and almost entirely blue. It shows that colonies are dangerous if they are allowed to take root.
If there's a silver lining: the ingress of blue voters who turned Denver (and thus Colorado) purple are disjointed weirdos whose political interest goes about as far as the ballot box. These people just want to smoke weed, do weird outdoorsy shit, and plan their next horrible tattoo.
The conservatives in CO are much more organized, and were able to push back against a lot of the mask and vaccine bullshit. I was in and out of the state kind of frequently over the past couple years and it was always a mix of liberal stupidity and red state common sense.
Don't sell them short. The Blue Voters are also infesting Apsen and Vail (and the general surrounding areas like Snowmass and Edwards). And those aren't just the dumb 20 something libshits. Those are the out of touch mega rich ones.
The fortunate part about that however is those people need even more working class to keep those cities running, and those people can't even hope to afford living anywhere close. So every nearby city/county grows even more red entrenched and populace to compensate.
Until the richies start driving them out of the minimal available real estate in the mountains too.
Right - I was very careful not to mention the big money in Aspen and Vail. That's where the CO DNC has power -- not in Denver where their voters nominally are.
I love Denver, too, so don't get me wrong. But the people there aren't that politically engaged.
California "right wing" is a different kind of thing than Texas right wing. A California republican would feel right at home with many Texas Democrats.
It is, however, a myth that Californians are turning the state purple. That's immigration from other countries.
Even that is not necessarily true. Texas became slightly more blue in a few elections, but has been rapidly shifting back toward the red direction as of late. On top of vast swaths of the state that have never voted Republican for hundreds of years suddenly doing so.