Wesley Pruden, The Washington Times, January 1, 2013
"the Manhattan Institute finds prosperous Californians fleeing dramatically higher taxes, tightening regulations, union power that pushes up labor costs, more expensive electricity, and ever more costly housing and commercial real estate. California is not quite the golden state it used to be."
From Google Imiges
Liberals lie through lies. Neocons lie through half-truths. In past decades political scientists had always referred to California as politically "bifurcated," meaning that it had a higher percentage of liberals AND conservatives than most other states--hence their electing Nixon and Reagan.
So what was the biggest change? Millions of liberal voters pouring into the state? Of course not. Because of geography, California became the roadkill in front of the third-world on-ramp into the U.S., after hostile federal ruling elites, on the Left and the Right, but mostly on the Left, decided that massive legal immigration, plus massive legal 'chain migration,' plus massive illegal in-migration were scintillatingly wonderful things.
So it is not just California liberals who have been approving all these taxing and spending increases. It is California liberals PLUS the continually invading and procreating third-world colonists, who enthusiastically approve more and bigger government social programs and elect more amnesty-friendly governors, legislators and mayors.
Much of the cause for Californians leaving their state is just plain old white flight, something happening in all states, except it is often kept within those states, as whites flee to different neighborhoods--the few remaining whites in Detroit and Memphis, are you listening?--since most other states have NOT YET become as demographically third-world as California. (Has anyone else read any of the latest glowing reports on Nashville's booming 'Little Kurdistan'?)
Tellingly, there are still some overwhelmingly white 'red sate' geographic areas within California that if taken together would be larger than some entire red states. Of course all this is never mentioned in such columns as this. Hence the second sentence above.
--Updated 2/2013
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