Most people are all too familiar with the massive wave of illegal immigrants flocking across our southern border. Nice work there Joe. In 2018 there were estimates of 11.39 million illegal immigrants. That is probably low. There are reports of another 7.5 million illegal immigrants entering since Biden took office and about 1.7 million people who crossed our border, but we don’t anything about them. If true, then the number of illegal immigrants may be approaching twenty million. (When I wrote this sentence, spell check wanted to change this to “undocumented immigrants, to avoid offending anyone.) We really don’t know how many illegal immigrants are here because they deliberately live under the radar.
But that is not the only migration. It turns out other people are migrating, only they are doing it legally. My wife and I moved from California to Florida in May of 2022. The hardest part of the move was getting someone willing to drive a truck, with our household goods, from California to Florida. There were tons of trucks willing to go to Florida. Not nearly so many willing to make a return trip to California. It was so bad our goods had to be shipped on a train.
According to the following report from MSN, not exactly a Republican rag, an estimated five million people have left blue states for red states. People are getting out of Dodge, or rather California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, and the District of Columbia.
They are moving to Florida, Texas, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. They are seeing a steam stream of those 7.5 million illegal immigrants heading in the opposite direction, toward blue states. People who want free food, free housing and in California, free health care. They dream of getting a $10,000 debit card from New York. They want everything you have, except your job.
Mass Exodus – Blue States Lose 5 Million People in Largest U.S. Migration Wave (msn.com)
Now ask yourself some questions. If you live in a state with more illegal immigrants than working people, how is this going to help the state’s economy? If you add new people, without jobs, into a crowded area, how is this going to solve the desperate need for more affordable housing? Is it easier to afford some place to stay if you are working or are waiting for handouts.
Why is this happening? One critical factor is taxes. California is losing tax revenue because people with jobs are leaving, so it has responded by raising income taxes rates to 14.4%. Florida and Texas raised their income tax rates from zero to zero.
Another factor is people are simply not buying the “woke” agenda. San Francisco arrogantly announced that it would no longer do business with Red states who did not embrace San Francisco’s woke agenda. Oops. It turns out that this was a huge mistake. Many things San Francisco needed came from those awful Red States. This was so obvious that California has also dropped its boycott of states over their LGBTQ laws.
What caused the ban in the first place? North Carolina banned transgender people from using public bathrooms that aligned with their gender identity not their actual body parts. How awful, to ban a man from dressing like a female and then using the women’s bathroom. What could possibly go wrong?
Red states just ignored these boycotts. They had little or no impact on Red states. But they caused enormous problems in San Francisco and the rest of California. Nice!
This is now so obvious that even MSN noticed. A lot of people, fed up with Blue state democratic leadership, are saying “Blue, bye you.” A lot of those Blue states are soon going to be very familiar with one product from those awful Red states. Red Ink.
TDM
On the mark Terry!