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Originally Posted by Whirlaway
Texas is turning purple because of immigration from Latin America; NOT New York and California.
How? Illegals can't vote. And, even so, Latino immigrants have been moving into Texas for decades - the same as California. Yet CA went completely blue while TX went red.
And those leaving California and NY are very much in play for conservative policies. My experience tells me that most of those JC Penny workers who came to Plano turned out to be Republicans, not Democrats !
I agree that transplants from NY, CA and other states are in play, but that doesn't mean they will. All the people from one company are a bad sample. They all have the same biases. What about recent college grads and other young people coming individually looking for work. They haven't been burned enough by life to know better.
Same with the American Airlines workers who proceeded them.............middle class voters want great schools, low crime, and low taxes....they make reliable voters for the GOP.
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But AA moved to DFW from NYC in 1979. That's 34 years ago. And they really just moved the headquarters here, not the whole company. It's not like AA moved all the pilots and flight attendants who were based in NY to Dallas.
So I don't think the AA example tells us anything useful today.
The blue collar folks in NY are stuck there, tied to their jobs - cops, fireman, trade unions. And the service professionals who may relocate tend to skew younger and they will probably want the same welfare programs as NY, but won't associated it with how it impacts their taxes.
It's incrementalism. They will support "just" this program or "just" that program and argue that it only adds a little cost. The next thing you know, TX is top heavy with public sector unions and high taxes.