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America is growing more geographically polarized — red ZIP codes are getting redder and blue ZIP codes are becoming bluer. People appear to be sorting."We felt very out of place and very uncomfortable at times," says Tiffany Wooten, a 43-year-old stay-at-home mom whose family recently relocated from conservative Indiana to liberal Austin. "We were looking at blue cities because we wanted to be with our own people."
In the modern era, Texas has fashioned itself into a sort-of breakaway red-meat republic — banning books and restricting abortion, blocking mask mandates, and building its own border fence. It retains this national image in spite of the fact that its five largest counties went for President Biden.But more and more Trump followers are flocking to red Texas in search of the promised land.The national real estate brokerage, Redfin, predicted that in 2022, "people will vote with their feet, moving to places that align with their politics."
It's actually been happening for some time.
Residents have been fleeing states like California with high taxes, expensive real estate and school mask mandates and heading to conservative strongholds like Idaho, Tennessee and Texas.
"They are still sorting themselves in ways that end up that places are increasingly Republican or increasingly Democratic," he says. "Then you can see that playing out in Congress. There are fewer people in the middle. And so politics becomes less about solving our problems anymore. It's about cheering for our side. And so we're stuck."
Yet while social scientists and journalists may fret over this political segregation, for the people changing ZIP codes to be with their own tribe, it's a kind of deliverance.
originally posted by: TonyS
What next? I don't really know. I am keeping an eye out for the beginning of a "tax revolt" in the Red Zone States, which I refer to as the "Free States of America", as residents of FSA begin to chafe at paying taxes to maintain the US cities which, are otherwise unsustainable without huge infusions of cash from the US Government.
originally posted by: Hypntick
Edit: Also AM, the Rockefeller Institute? Not saying the data is wrong, just jeez, talk about enemy of the people territory.
Tiffany Wooten, a 43-year-old stay-at-home mom whose family recently relocated from conservative Indiana to liberal Austin. "We were looking at blue cities because we wanted to be with our own people."
originally posted by: gb540
Tiffany Wooten, a 43-year-old stay-at-home mom whose family recently relocated from conservative Indiana to liberal Austin. "We were looking at blue cities because we wanted to be with our own people."
If she really wanted to be with her own, why didn’t she move to Chicago?
Actions speak, when you embrace an ideology while fleeing the local utopia.
Another problem with this is that it seriously undermines a sense of Nationhood or Nationality, (which plays directly into the hands of the Globalist Elites who seek to replace the Nation State with One World Government). So for example, by way of anecdotal evidence, my friends don't identify as "Americans" (citizens of the US) but rather, as Texans. And this Great Sort exacerbates this problem (if it is a problem) when taken in conjuction with the US abandonment of Soveriegnty along the Southern Border with Mexico.
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: TonyS
What next? I don't really know. I am keeping an eye out for the beginning of a "tax revolt" in the Red Zone States, which I refer to as the "Free States of America", as residents of FSA begin to chafe at paying taxes to maintain the US cities which, are otherwise unsustainable without huge infusions of cash from the US Government.
It's a bit of the other way around, states like New York, California and Massachusetts pay more in taxes than they receive.
This breakdown shows who pays and who's a mooch.
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: TonyS
What next? I don't really know. I am keeping an eye out for the beginning of a "tax revolt" in the Red Zone States, which I refer to as the "Free States of America", as residents of FSA begin to chafe at paying taxes to maintain the US cities which, are otherwise unsustainable without huge infusions of cash from the US Government.
It's a bit of the other way around, states like New York, California and Massachusetts pay more in taxes than they receive.
This breakdown shows who pays and who's a mooch.
originally posted by: TonyS
Looking at that map makes me think that they pay in more than they recieve because their residents are paid far higher salaries to offset the cost of living in those states, thus they pay more in Federal taxes to the Federal Government?