Oh, also, +1 for the link but... I don't think this person's evidence supports the conclusion that people are fleeing Democat run states for Republican. Texas makes a ton of gains due to illegal immigration. And, by his/her own words it's about 50/50 as far as the losers of population. I mean...Alabama? Deeply, deeply in the pocket of Republicans.
Different states, different cultures, different demographics.
Red/Blue, GOP / DEM is too basic to be of use when talking about why millions of different people move all over the country.
P.S. Bert Sperling, bless his soul, quit publishing his books on this topic. Anyone have an idea why that happened? I used to really enjoy those things and his website is filled with errors and unreliable info from insane people leaving multiple comments about the city they hate. lol
I love the infrastructure, park space, and investment into it's own people that Portland has. Coming from Texas where you drive 2 hours (or much, much more) to get to a scrap of public land...that you then have to wait 30 minutes in line just to drive into because everyone else from the city had the same idea and now there's not a place in that land where you're alone for more than a minute, coming from that...I'm very, very thankful for some of the Left's policies. Also, for being "anti-nanny State", Texas has a huge hard-on for punishing people for choosing a safer alternative to alcohol, much like many of the dark-red GOP states that still want to nanny State decide for their citizens what to smoke, drink, etc.
That was a plus for Trump. More on that later.
Also, Texas has a crime problem. Throwing people into long jail sentences for relatively harmless crimes has blossomed the gangs in Texas to a disgusting degree. Most large metros are grubby, in the extreme and filled with shitty gangsters walking down the middle of the fucking street like total assholes. Etc. I could go on...
Trump appealed to many of us because he seemed like a change from the old GOP policies of Drug War, Small Government (that still is in your bedroom and medicine cabinet) and etc. And also not a Leftist who wanted to word police and have the state get involved in social warfare between cultures.
Mainly, the big thing was the border, which nobody else had the balls to bring up because they're spineless politicians who look at polls before saying anything and politics desn't reward sticking out from anyone else.
The border, and bringing troops back and investing that money into our own contry.
The best of both sides.
We got (most of) the border. We got (most of) a deescalation of foreign wars.
He flipped as far as raising taxes on the 1% ( something he said he'd "look into" during the RNC primary).
That's life. Overall, I'm still satisfied with my choice in 2016.
Maybe next time we'll get a true "strong border, isolationist, higher tax and more investment in our own cities vs Iran, Iraq, other side of the world and Ukraine where the prying eyes aren't so keen to pick up on graft of our pols"?
We have problems that are going t require a vast tool box of solutions to fix.
Partisanship and being unwilling to give and take just freezes this country into a gridlock of paralysis.
Oh, also, +1 for the link but... I don't think this person's evidence supports the conclusion that people are fleeing Democat run states for Republican. Texas makes a ton of gains due to illegal immigration. And, by his/her own words it's about 50/50 as far as the losers of population. I mean...Alabama? Deeply, deeply in the pocket of Republicans.
Different states, different cultures, different demographics.
Red/Blue, GOP / DEM is too basic to be of use when talking about why millions of different people move all over the country.
P.S. Bert Sperling, bless his soul, quit publishing his books on this topic. Anyone have an idea why that happened? I used to really enjoy those things and his website is filled with errors and unreliable info from insane people leaving multiple comments about the city they hate. lol
I love the infrastructure, park space, and investment into it's own people that Portland has. Coming from Texas where you drive 2 hours (or much, much more) to get to a scrap of public land...that you then have to wait 30 minutes in line just to drive into because everyone else from the city had the same idea and now there's not a place in that land where you're alone for more than a minute, coming from that...I'm very, very thankful for some of the Left's policies. Also, for being "anti-nanny State", Texas has a huge hard-on for punishing people for choosing a safer alternative to alcohol, much like many of the dark-red GOP states that still want to nanny State decide for their citizens what to smoke, drink, etc.
That was a plus for Trump. More on that later.
Also, Texas has a crime problem. Throwing people into long jail sentences for relatively harmless crimes has blossomed the gangs in Texas to a disgusting degree. Most large metros are grubby, in the extreme and filled with shitty gangsters walking down the middle of the fucking street like total assholes. Etc. I could go on...
Trump appealed to many of us because he seemed like a change from the old GOP policies of Drug War, Small Government (that still is in your bedroom and medicine cabinet) and etc. And also not a Leftist who wanted to word police and have the state get involved in social warfare between cultures.
Mainly, the big thing was the border, which nobody else had the balls to bring up because they're spineless politicians who look at polls before saying anything and politics desn't reward sticking out from anyone else.
The border, and bringing troops back and investing that money into our own contry.
The best of both sides.
We got (most of) the border. We got (most of) a deescalation of foreign wars.
He flipped as far as raising taxes on the 1% ( something he said he'd "look into" during the RNC primary).
That's life. Overall, I'm still satisfied with my choice in 2016.
Maybe next time we'll get a true "strong border, isolationist, higher tax and more investment in our own cities vs Iran, Iraq, other side of the world and Ukraine where the prying eyes aren't so keen to pick up on graft of our pols"?
We have problems that are going t require a vast tool box of solutions to fix.
Partisanship and being unwilling to give and take just freezes this country into a gridlock of paralysis.