Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Ben Shapiro: The Great Re-Sorting is Here

 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.

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9 comments:

Anonymous said...

The only downside to the out migration from these states is that most of these people bring their politics with them.

Anonymous said...

They need to keep their asses in the mess they voted for time and time again.

Anonymous said...

Just wait until the anchor baby citizens start voting in 10-15 years. There are estimated to be over 50 million illegals and their offspring here, and they just keep coming. The chicken plants, roofers and landscapers who are profiting by hiring illegals, do so at their children and grandchildren’s expense. If Jackson is Mogadishu, Pearl and Ridgland will be Sinaloa City.

Anonymous said...

But but please send your tax dollars to Mississippi, we are going to need them even more with the clowns driving the bus to Kansas.

Anonymous said...

And the illegal aliens are not jumping up and down for voting rights. The liberals are outright buying votes. There’s no other country in the world that allows people who aren’t citizens to vote in their elections. Liberalism is truly a disease.

Anonymous said...

Gosh, Ben, ever heard of "Baby Boomers"?

Well, we are retiring to warmer climates and areas with lower costs of living.

My friends, many in the northeast and California, didn't go to Florida or the South for political reasons.

You might want to worry about that influx of liberal boomers into Texas and Florida the reason for trying to make voting more difficult?

Too bad, if we can muster the resources to retire and move, we can navigate your restrictions...we've been voting a long, long time.

Anonymous said...

'Warmer climes' causing people to abandon liberal cities? Bullshit. Nothing about the 'Clime' has changed since the Ice Age.


And, yes, 5:29 is on target. We have willingly replaced a recalcitrant black labor force with a brown work force, relegating the black work force to an even deeper bench in the poverty line. What will we replace the brown work force with in fifteen years when it approaches majority voting strength and refuses to take jobs and balks like a government mule?

We allow (through our own actions) sub-culture development and then we feed and care for it. Then we build another.

Anonymous said...

Enjoy yourselves while it lasts. This country is sooooooooo screwed. The next batch of leaders that could help us are only 16 and younger right now. Those 17 to 30 are blooming idiots.

This doesn't end well said...

@ 9:01 nails it.
Florida is Exhibit "A". I've done business in FL (all parts of the state) for decades and own property there. It used to be staunchly conservative, free of regulations, an easy place to do business, and a wonderful place to live and let live. Then all the east coast and midwest folks moved down there in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s, and they loved it and all the freedoms they had never before experienced. They told their friends and family how great and free Florida was and to come join them, and they all did.
BUT eventually those people just couldn't help themselves, and had to dictate to everyone in FL exactly how they must live, and what they could and could not do, and slowly but steadily imposed most of the oppressive rules and regulations and laws from the hellish places from which they'd fled. They destroyed the freedoms and ruined the state. The large majority of Florida (except the far west panhandle) is now just the "South" Bronx or "Lower" Manhattan or "South" Jersey or "South" Chicago. It's heavily regulated, and very expensive, and a far cry from the free state that it once was. Today, Florida's only redeeming quality, besides sunshine and nice beaches, is zero state income tax, and for that reason alone it will continue to thrive and draw more and from northern climes until it becomes staunchly blue.
Texas, you're next!



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