This week, the incoming New York City Mayor Eric Adams — the supposed rational corrective to uber-radical outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio — announced that he would allow legislation to proceed allowing local voting for 800,000 noncitizens. The same week, the legislature in California took up a bill that would establish single-payer health care in the state, paying for the increase in costs by essentially doubling taxes.
Americans have been fleeing the most liberal states in mass numbers. Those numbers are about to increase even more.
Between July 2020 and July 2021, approximately 352,198 residents of New York State embarked for warmer climes. Over that same period, the District of Columbia lost 2.9% of its population. California lost 367,299 people via net domestic migration. Illinois, another failing blue state, saw a net domestic out-migration of 122,460 people.
Where did all these blue state refugees go? To red states, of course. Texas picked up 170,307 Americans migrating from other areas. Florida picked up 220,890 people. Arizona picked up 93,026. Idaho had the fastest annual population increase in the nation.
The only region of the country to gain population was the South, which now holds 38.3% of the total population of the country — and which picked up 657,682 Americans migrating from different areas. The Northeast is now the least populous region in the United States, and saw a net population decrease of 365,795 residents. All net increase in population in the West was due to births and international migration, not domestic moves.
It’s not just individuals — it’s companies. Facebook’s parent company, Meta, just signed the largest-ever lease in downtown Austin for floors 34 through 66 of the tallest tower in the city. Elon Musk has relocated his company headquarters to Texas. My own Daily Wire relocated in 2020 from California to Nashville, Tennessee.
In other words, red state governance is a magnet; blue state governance is a disaster. Yet blue states cannot change course. They cannot simply jettison their adherence to failed ideas like single-payer health care or voting for illegal immigrants. To do so would be to acknowledge error. And so instead, they are banking on unearned moral superiority — virtue signaling — to fill the gap where good governance should be. Thus, red states are grandma-killing hellholes (where blue state legislators vacation); red states are brutal suppressors of voting rights (where Stacey Abrams wants to run for governor again); red states are filled with vicious dog-eat-dog trickle-down capitalists (who must be taxed to pay for national spending programs).
None of this is bound to convince Americans to vote Democrat. It’s not designed to do so. Democrats have banked on a consistent electoral strategy since former President Barack Obama’s 2012 victory — the strategy of driving out a base comprised of minority voters and college-educated women. But that strategy is collapsing — as Ruy Texiera, once the nation’s leading proponent of that strategy, admitted in November, “if Hispanic voting trends continue to move steadily against the Democrats, the pro-Democratic effect of nonwhite population growth will be blunted, if not cancelled out entirely, and that very influential Democratic theory of the case falls apart.”
It’s falling apart in real time. But Democrats can’t pull out of the tailspin. They’re too invested in the lie that their programs are popular to notice how many Americans are calling up U-Haul.
Ben Shapiro, 37, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” and editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers “How To Destroy America In Three Easy Steps,” “The Right Side Of History,” and “Bullies.” To find out more about Ben Shapiro and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
Only citizens are legally allowed to vote per the constitution. This shows that the democrats don’t care about the constitution. Illegals are not citizen s. All person are entitled to equal protection under the law. You look up “equal protection under the law” it pertains to the courts , not to schools , welfare, food stamps or health care. The constitution says you have the right to life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It does not say right to ours free schools ,our welfare, food stamps or our healthcare.
Appaently they are too dumb to care about the populations shifting to red states, means their House Seat representation moves to red States as well. Now do you understand why they are piling in the illegals fast and furiously? Another reason the Supreme Court should not have allowed illegals to be counted in the census.
HELL< the scotus was the ones who SADDLED US WITH having to care FOR illegal invaders, decades ago, when they ruled YES ILLEGAL INVADERS< can be given US TAX PAYER money….
AND TILL THOSE blue state folks, who KEEP FLEEING, realize its THEIR INSANE IDEALS THEY KEPT VOTING FOR, was what was ruining their former states, THEY WILL KEEP ruining every state they flee to!!!
Where in the he11 are the real Americans who were voted in and why the he11 aren’t they taking action to protect Americans and our constitution?
“In other words, red state governance is a magnet; blue state governance is a disaster. Yet blue states cannot change course. They cannot simply jettison their adherence to failed ideas like single-payer health care or voting for illegal immigrants. To do so would be to acknowledge error.”
Let’s hope that those who are leaving red states truly understand what is making things so unbearable that they feel the need to move to red states. I know it echoes from every direction—but if they bring the Liberal ideologies and failed policies with them that they are running from, then red states will become blue and we will have an even bigger problem.
SO, RED STATE MOVERS—PLEASE GRASP THE PROBLEM AND DON’T SPREAD IT ACROSS THE NATION.
THAT Is why i loved reading that story, from Palm beach in FL, where some local, PLASTERED PRINTED OUT SHEETS on the windows of cars with tags from NY and such “GO BACK HOME, take your liberalism with ya, we don’t want you here”…
I think you meant to say blue state movers to red states.
These “useful idiots” flee to the red states that have lower taxes and freedom and yet it is these “useful idiots” that voted in the higher taxes and they voted in the Soros prosecutors, who will not prosecute criminals. “Stupid is as stupid does”.
Yes, the influx of liberals along with Soros’ and Polis’ money is what flipped Colorado and they are now working on Texas.