The Liberal Invasion of Red State America by Kristin B. Tate

Author:Kristin B. Tate
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 2020-01-20T16:00:00+00:00

The Big Move

There are many underlying reasons for the 2016 election results. The overarching political causes, campaign blunders, and masterstrokes will keep political scientists and historians hard at work for decades. But there is one other factor that they need to take into account—or they will be missing a major cause of those surprising results. Formerly red states are filling up with Democratic voters fleeing blue states. Years after these liberal voters built their own cities and states—places like San Francisco, New York City, and Chicago—on their own liberal principles, they decided to leave the mess that those principles had created. After they voted to raise taxes, increase welfare subsidies, and implement policies of “inclusion” because it was the right thing to do…they left. Their homes simply became too expensive, and good job opportunities were increasingly hard to come by.

These Democrats moved to red state America, where business-friendly policies have created robust job growth and a low cost of living. As a result, states like North Carolina, Colorado, New Hampshire, and Texas are now seeing a cultural divide open up between natives and new residents. The newcomers are like houseguests who overstay their welcome and start to change things around your house to bring them up to their standards.

One of the biggest influences on me growing up was The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. The book is set in the Great Depression and follows the Joads, a poor farming family forced from their Oklahoma home by a severe drought and economic hardship. Seeking opportunity and a brighter future, the family heads west. The story dramatizes life in the Great Depression and shows how it formed societal changes. The novel reflects Steinbeck’s sympathy for Franklin Roosevelt and old-school liberal politics. But the yearning portrayed in the book is universal. Everyone longs for a basic level of economic and personal self-determination, and the resentment inspired by economic troubles still rings true today.

Today’s great migration isn’t the result of a natural disaster such as the Dust Bowl. It’s caused by economic failure due to left-wing fiscal and political mismanagement. Substitute a man-made disaster for a natural one. The Democrats have wrecked the economies of the blue states, and now they’re uprooting themselves to seek out greener pastures. Instead of the Great Depression overshadowing the whole nation, we have hundreds of smaller depressions crippling the regions traditionally administered by Democrats. Today’s Joads are going in the opposite direction. They’re leaving the Golden State for Oklahoma. What a difference eighty years makes. California boasts breathtaking natural beauty and a near-perfect climate. Geographically speaking, it’s a land of sunshine and magic. But now the bright sun cannot hide the issues facing California—the state has lost a million residents over the last decade.4

Underlying the great move of the twenty-first century is a toxic mix of poor policy, fiscal disasters, and economic stagnation in America’s blue states. Gone are the white picket fences and the possibility of supporting a family on a single income. It’s not just California.

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