Re:Why so many people are moving to Texas
by vaadu on Thursday May 30, 2013 @04:56PM
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The liberal transplants are called locusts. They vote for big government, and a huge welfare state. As a result, the government then hikes taxes, and institutes all kinds of nanny-state regulations, strangling business. Eventually (sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly) the state begins to fail, all of the resources have been exploited, and Liberals move on to the next state.
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Re:Why so many people are moving to Texas
by dragonwriter on Friday May 31, 2013 @05:38PM
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This is an interesting and oft-repeated theory, but for at least the last three decades, if not longer, the examples of the most recent states the "liberal locusts" have just destroyed when it gets trotted out have always been some combination of New York, California, and Massachussets, and the implication has always been that they are next moving to previously "pure" states in the South or inland West.
If the trend was really as claimed, you'd expect their to be a trail of states to point to that have been moved through over time, rather than always the same states.