Brace yo'selfs fo de comin' yankification.

My god, you should be whipped with a cane.

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and turn the South blue

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It breaks my heart to see the once proud Commonwealth of Virginia turning blue as a springtime robin's egg because of the damned unwashed yanees.

Grab another mint julep Scarlet. The bluecoats have a large expeditionary force just over the border.

I realize it's simplistic to look at that chart and conclude lower taxes is the causal factor for money moving from blue to red. (look at AZ. I figured TX would be the big winner.)

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OMG, civilization comes to the South.

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We don't want civilization

Arlo is embarrassed.....

I'm one of the Yankees that moved south. I came from NYC. Taxes and state / local government not spending on the right things were a major reason.

I think the majority of people that have moved, like me, are dissatisfied with state / local government in terms of taxation and government mismanagement. Probably not representative politically of the regions we came from.

I can understand some areas, like Austin, however I see it more the other way of those areas turning the people towards more conservative. Once you start seeing your paycheck increase as a % of gross income and the services remain in the same ballpark.

At the end of the day, people are moving due to fiscal conservative policies.....

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people are moving due to fiscal conservative policies.....

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It would be interesting to see that graph on a year by year basis. Instead it covers Billy Jeff, W, and Barry. Maybe the data would be too vague to draw any conclusions. It may just be people moving away from high COL areas which incidentally have high taxes.

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They are geniuses.

They move south to escape places ran by liberal policy and then vote for the Democrats once they move.

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Yep, and they move to the southeast from California too. Then vote for liberal policies. They are braindead drones.

In Alabama the red and green is white flight.

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Ah, grits--the apogee of southern culture.

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Your smugness says a lot about your preferences. If we want to talk culinary achievements and preferences, I live in the heart of immigrant country here in my part of Florida. We live on the edge of the Gulf of Mexico, with seafood sources galore. The native population has been usurped by refugees from Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, PA, NJ, NY and other places North, Midwest, and East. They outnumber the FL natives, bring their accents, their dollars, their total misunderstanding and lack of appreciation for what is Southern/Florida culture and cuisine. Restaurants around here don't offer anything that could be considered by Southerners as well-seasoned seafood, good fried seafood, or anything else with flavor beyond a small shake of salt and pepper. Oh, yeah - at daring moments they pour pepper and tabasco into the pan and call some things "Cajun blackened" this or that. But this is in no way like unto anything we'd recognize in LA. The preferred restaurants are places like Olive Garden, Applebees, Bob Evans, and other similar generic/sysco-laden national chains. The fish of choice down here divides between talapia and mushy grouper. Nobody has even heard of speckled trout. Fried shrimp is always an expensive disappointment. And if some restauranteur does have the nerve to offer something that resembles flavor, you can be sure you'll hear accented people complaining about how it's "too spicey!" It's depressing.