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So true! I have debated ad nauseum with conservatives on this very topic. Their media machine is feeding this absurdity to them and they believe it. They see it as hard evidence that conservative policies are superior to any other policies.

Texas might be the sole case where that’s actually happening. Most of the wealth is being concentrated in and around Austin, though.

they think they can create their own "dimension" where everything they want to believe is magically true

My friend is a DevOps engineer, she fled Texas with her wife. They're both trans

I've turned down a couple prospective offers for that too. I am not going to trade my shithole state for a shittier holier state.

And thus setting in motion the literal plot setup for Idiocracy.

My state (GA) elected two Democratic Senators and folks still label it "red."

I wonder if the whole red state/blue state discourse would disappear if we just got rid of the fucking Electoral College...

That’s not the end game. Conservatives will never be satisfied with progressives existing in their country, even if in a different state.

No, the goal secession. Or worse.

The house part doesn't work though. Population determines representation, so if lots of people leave, the red states get less votes in the house. Granted, we will have to wait for the next census, which should be really interesting to read about.

I remember a bunch of Americans telling me that America isn't a democracy, and shouldn't score high on those indexes that rank countries... because the USA is actually a republic.

So of course, there's no sense in comparing the US to other countries unless they're also republics. Or if we're talking about economies.

I'm a software engineer too. I was born in the deep south where even my grandmother disowned me because I told her people were going to die on January 6th because of trump, she said I was a liar and hung up and never answered my calls again. I moved to a purple state to balance out the MAGA extremists. The whole southeast is full of some of the least educated people in America, and the vast majority are red.

It started badly with that couple being the focus in a story-like section. Too long only to shift to discuss different reasons and examples of people leaving other states for various reasons. About 2/3 of the way through they finally get into demographics of college educated people, their economic benefits and new data on rates of leaving red states for blue states.

Eventually it was very good at describing the overall situation happening. But man, they didn't need to write so much about their personal lives. Especially at the beginning.

Colorado has moved more blue over the last couple decades. Please ignore Boebert. All of us in the developed parts of the state do.

This attitude pisses me off for a number of reasons.

Not everyone can afford to move out of these states as they become steadily shittier. Smart people leaving further entrenches the conservative majority in those states, which makes it harder to flip states. It makes it easier for Republicans to control the Senate, and harder for Democrats to accomplish anything (not that they ever fucking want to). And when Republicans put policies in place that fuck over the people who can't leave, Democrats on the national level consider it to be a Red State Problem that they don't have to worry about doing anything about, because all the people who can't leave evidently deserve it for being outnumbered and not having enough money to move.

Thing is, Democrats' lack of solidarity is gonna come back to bite them in the ass. When their negligence has caused a permanent Republican majority in the Senate, those Red State Problems they didn't give a shit about are gonna be implemented at the national level. They're not gonna stay Red State Problems.