Suffering from Success
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There are 2 relevant points. The first is that there is a lot of ideological sorting going on with these moves. For instance, at least as of a few years ago (I haven't seen anything since) there were more Democrat voting native born Texans by percentage than transplants. Enough to have a Senator Beto but for the non-native Texans voting against him. The second would be that even a lot of these coastal Republicans (of which there are huge numbers) are more libertarian neo-con types. They do bring softer culture stances that then help create more of the spreading leftism we see across the country.
This is just personal experience, but sometimes it seems like conservatives from blue states can be more passionate than conservatives from red states. For example, I grew up in a solidly blue state. I actually had to live under the leftist idiocy of my totally blue government. It was bad when I was younger, but its steadily gotten worse. And I grew up in suburbia; the people out in the sticks hate the state government far more than I can imagine. Nonetheless, I have no tolerance for a lot of leftist points that other conservatives might be willing to humor.
Conversely, you have states like Utah. Utah is about as solidly red as they come, and it has a lot of great people. But, the establishment Republican Party has such stranglehold on the state. It's become RINO-central. The Republican Party can get away it, because they have no meaningful competition. I hope that primarying bad politicians becomes more mainstream, but that's how things are right now.