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LA Times: They fled California for Republican Texas. Then the blue wave hit the lone star state
"...Many Californians who moved to Texas were moderate or conservative, drawn by lower housing costs and a political climate that they believed better reflected their views.
The election has unsettled some transplants, including one who is considering Oklahoma or Florida..."
@knowprose True, very expensive to move in general.
@ai6yr Yeah, most of my adult life - apart from the last 8 years - was bouncing around the planet, and many of the people who DO move like that thought I was a kindred spirit.
I was going where the work was.
@ai6yr Well that was dumb. All they had to do was move to Redding or Huntington Beach.
@HumToTable Sadly, isn't that the truth?
@ai6yr they're welcome to move to Florida. Wait until they find out how expensive it can be to live there
@ai6yr lol, those poor widdle dears...
***to think, Texas isn't racist enough for you now, so you have to find a more racist place to move.
re: USpol
@ai6yr
Maybe Mississ-
oh, wait
@ai6yr exactly. They obviously never heard of Junteenth, and the reasons why it's an important event to respect and remember
@kellyromanych I suspect they are also realizing, to their horror, that Texas has a very large and diverse population of POC... a lot of black, Latino, mixed, other folks, and in many areas more so than parts of California. They just haven't had the political power. The folks you run into here in California who are "I'm going to move away from California" tend to live in gated communities or places like Newport Beach, etc. where it's extremely white... and the ones I run into aren't shy about their racist comments about POC. At least, those are the folks i run into.... It's all very terrible....
The odds that the woman who is cited in this article has a red hat and has demeaned brown people is very non-zero, IMHO. 😡
@ai6yr
Yeah, if "talking about my politics" puts someone in legitimate fear of losing their job, those are some spectacularly shitty takes which likely violate EEOC and/or employer policies 😬
@me_valentijn Yeah, it can't be good.
@ai6yr sucks to be them. (those unsettled transplants referred to in the article)
@ai6yr People who have the money to move like that see the world a bit differently.