California conservatives are leaving the state in droves over what the LA Times describes as their “disenchantment with deep-blue California’s liberal political culture,” not to mention “high taxes, lukewarm support for local law enforcement, and policies they believe have thrown open the doors to illegal immigration.”
Just over half of California’s registered voters have considered leaving the state, according to a UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll conducted for the Los Angeles Times. Republicans and conservative voters were nearly three times as likely as their Democratic or liberal counterparts to seriously have considered moving — 40% compared with 14%, the poll found. Conservatives mentioned taxes and California’s political culture as a reason for leaving more frequently than they cited the state’s soaring housing costs. –LA Times
Former Californians Richard and Judy Stark had no regrets as they left their Modesto home, towing a U-Haul trailer with their Volkswagen SUV 1,300 miles to Amarillo, Texas. After finding the website Conservative Move, the Starks put their home up for sale around six months ago and bought a newly constructed three-bedroom home in the suburb of McKinney for around $300,000. According to Stark, a similar home in California would cost around twice as much.
“We’re moving to redder pastures,” said the 71-year-old. “We’re getting with people who believe in the same political agenda that we do: America first, Americans first, law and order.”
According to new Census Bureau migration data for 2018, 691,145 Californians left for other states last year, according to the San Jose Mercury News.
Where they’re going (via the Mercury News)
• Top destinations: In raw terms of people moving, the top spot for Californians is Texas, which got 86,164 Californians in 2018. Next came Arizona (68,516), Washington (55,467), Nevada (50,707), and Oregon (43,058). All told, California had the most exits among the state and that wave grew by 4% in a year.
• Largest net gain: Texas also had the largest “net gain” from California — more ins than outs — with 48,354. Next was Arizona (34,846), Nevada (28,274), Oregon (19,008), and Washington (17,460).
• Greatest ratio of ins to outs: Or look at the comings and goings as a ratio of ins to outs. Idaho wins this race with 497 arrivals from the Golden State for every 100 former Potato State residents who moved to California. Next was South Carolina (247 ins per 100 out); Texas (228); Nevada (226); and Arizona (203).
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That said, the LA Times also notes that California is gaining people with higher incomes – most of whom have migrated to the Bay Area.
Over the last decade, the Legislative Analyst’s Office report said, the state added about 100,000 residents with household incomes of $120,000 or higher. About 85% of these higher-income earners moved to the Bay Area counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara. –LA Times
The three-member Bailey family moved from California to Prosper, Texas in 2017 to get away from Southern California’s steep housing prices. Bailey and her husband Scott owned a home in Orange County, while renting in El Segundo to be closer to Scott’s work in Santa Monica.
“To buy a house there [El Segundo] is insane,” said Marie. “It’s like $1 million. Why are we working our butts off for a fixer-upper in El Segundo? We’re just working, working, working — and for what?”
Bailey launched a Facebook group for people struggling with the same problems – “Move to Texas From California!“, which boasts over 14,000 members. She says that most members are conservatives like her, though not all. As such, one of her rules is “no insulting or going overboard with political conversations.”
“I wouldn’t be one to put up a Trump sign, even here,” said the 40-year-old Bailey. “But in your town Facebook, people would be like, ‘We know who the Trump supporters are.’ I had friends who voted for Trump and went to work the next day and pretended they didn’t.”
Bailey says she helped around 40 families migrate to Texas over the last year.
“There are hundreds more who made the move who didn’t use my real estate services but are in the group,” she said. “Tons and tons of families are moving all the time. People are posting photos of their families waving goodbye.”
Nicole Rivers and her husband put their Clovis home on the market in April, and hope to close escrow soon. They plan on flying to Texas to look for a place to rent in the eastern part of the state, near Tyler, coming back to California and then driving to their new home.
Rivers, who recently quit her job as a medical assistant and phlebotomist, said the cost of living is so much lower in the Tyler area that she can afford to stop working and dedicate herself to being a stay-at-home mom.
Her husband works in the oil fields, she said, and was already splitting his time between his job in Pennsylvania and family in California. When he had the chance to transfer to Texas full time, they jumped on it.
The 37-year-old said she wants to live in a town where the family can save money and her husband can retire sooner.
“It’s just too expensive here in California,” said Rivers, a California native. The state’s politics have “really gotten out of hand,” she added. She doesn’t support the state’s restrictive gun laws, she said, or the controversial sex education framework California approved despite protests earlier this year. –LA Times
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I don’t like reading that South Carolina (247 ins per 100 out) was second. The liberal idiots moving in to NC from up north have turned that state purple. Hate to see that happen to SC, but the state is popular for retirement and jobs.
Indeed, moronic californians that relocate desire turning their latest occupation zone into the same shit hole from whence they came.
The rest of america is full. You created it, you fix it dumb asses.
Uh, maybe you missed the part of the story that mentioned conservatives making the move to redder pastures.
define conservative–
lots of conservatives aren’t really so against big govt as long as it doesn’t affect them negatively-
Conservative: One who harbors the political positions of the Democrats from six months ago, as core political values, and viciously attacks anyone that poses an actual threat to the Left.
See also: Cuck.
These bastards are just poor mouthing and making excuses for cashing in and leaving the state. It isn’t a new trend, I have always heard old timers talking about leaving Cali and retiring somewhere where they can save on taxes. I’m glad to see nobody was fooled by this wolf in sheep’s clothing story. A conservative is a liberal faggot who just sold his California house for big bucks. They head north to Oregon, Idaho or east to Arizona and beyond. They make a killing in the state then head out to the Hilltard country to buy a house on the cheap while inflating that area’s real estate prices.
The house they describe as $300,000 in McKinney has got to be a mansion. The weasels in Compton sold their shacks for half a $mil and bought up here in the AV for less than half that amount. You recognize them immediately, they buy a relatively cheap McMansion, fix it up and stock it with new appliances and surround it with new trucks, RVs and all the accoutrements of the nouveau riche. I suppose they will sell it later and move out of state. They are not conservatives, they are new money snobs.
Uh, no i didn’t miss it, thank you though, i can read. I’ve lived several places with transplanted califucktards that represent themselves as conservative. They want what they left behind in all its manifestations from consumerism to curbs and gutters.
The rest of America is full. Calichusetts is a shit hole. You created it, you fix it.
Californians didn’t ruin California. Jews from New York did. Now they’re moving on to new hosts, having sucked California dry.
Oy vey, the jews, like the Beverly Jewbilly mensheviks?
Is Kamalama ding dong a jew, Moonbeam, shvartzenegger, pelosi.
They’re not all jews anon.
Isn’t Kabala Haretz’s husband Jewish?
Pelosi?
https://www.interfaithfamily.com/news_and_opinion/synagogues_and_the_jewish_community/nancy_pelosis_interfaith_family/
Lol. May as well be a Jew.
Jerry’s advisor list speaks for itself.
Please don’t move to Texas and try and recreate the sorry assed paradise you just left………
And that is exactly what the transplanted Crazyfornians are going to do. Everywhere they go.
My experience in middle TN as well. We have virtually no unemployment, temperate weather, low property taxes and no income taxes. These fucksticks from Minnesota and Illinois are moving here at a rate of 100 per DAY. How do they not understand that THEY were the reason their states went to shit and burning yourself twice is puerile at best?
Surrre, we all dream of moving to Dogpatch
Californians moving to Texas,
Just be damn sure you leave blue state politics and attitudes in California. We don’t need or want those thoughts in Texas! Other than that, welcome to Texas!
The people that fucked California up, moved to Texas 30 years ago (and Oregon, and Washington, and Idaho, and Utah, and Colorado).
They have been working to ruin Texas this whole time.
I remember being taught in school (1960’s) that no one knew why the Mayan civilization disappeared. Later in life as an adult on a tour of some Mayan ruins in Mexico I found out that that shrinking tax base caused the collapse. The little people just got tired of supporting the ever increasing welfare economy of the elite. Is anyone paying attention?
It’s not Liberal. It’s insane. I’m not making this up. Sunday, our local rag, the Contra Costa Times had this article on page one of the local section: “State Reading Scores Plummet”. On page two: “State Teachers May Receive Up To 12% Pay Increase”. There’s a madness, an insanity that grips this place and the populace are inured to it.
https://www.city-journal.org/brooklyn-anti-cop-protests-fare-evasion
Come to NYC! It’s the Wild West of the East!
Isn’t the push for banning AR’s coming from the Left out in California, besides other Dem big shitties? Hmm.
I noticed the MSM presstitutes aren’t giving this story any traction.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-pregnant-woman-ar-15-burglary
Add me to the list. I’ve made an offer on a home in E. Ohio. I’m sick of California and, frankly, most of my friends have already moved away. Some are seeing the writing on the wall now that we wont have any electricity if the wind blows.
If you really want a Republican area you should skip eastern OH, and look at the panhandle area of WV instead. Hopefully you aren’t going to be in Youngstown or Akron area, they are pretty blue areas as well, although I suppose they would still seem somewhat normal compared to much of CA.
I live in Purple PA and can barely tolerate it, the Dems propose all the horrible confiscation laws and other craziness here, for now the Republicans have stopped the nonsense. But It’s pretty rough with Pittsburgh politicians turning crazy Demo just like alot of Philly now adays. It’s still crazy to me that 20yrs ago we had pro-life and pro 2nd ammendment Democrats in PA. The social justice bullshit is like an urban plague and has spread all over this country.
I think you are on to something with WV.
I hope a lot of CA conservatives move to CO – move it back from bluish-purple to red.
We have constitutional carry as of 11-1 in Oklahoma. But leave your leftist/commie stuff in californicate.
I think Oklahoma is the most conservative state. Even more than Wyoming.
Oregon went from official “It’s a nice place to visit, but don’t move here,” signs in the 60s to what you all see now. Gratis ‘conservative’ Califuckians. Carriers of the death-plague they are.
Still writing like Layback Lenny, I see.
Eliza Doolittle:
I ain’t dirty! I washed my face and hands before I come, I did.