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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.

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

The problem is just because you're smart enough to realize this doesn't mean you have the money to move

"Florida man punches DeSantis in the dong" is a headline that would be funny.

I just want to say that we need more people like you. I get that being this active is not for everyone, but damn, we need it right now. And I'm including myself in that statement.

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.

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.

This was in fact the goal. Convincing morons to vote against their own best interest is way easier than trying to convince people who are actually capable of reasoning. Gotta pump those GOP voter rolls somehow after all, and gerrymandering and voter suppression only gets you so far.

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.