Doesn’t seem like a healthy trend.
As someone who lives in a red state but votes blue… I understand why. It’s disappointing when you’re for/against certain issues that the other side is absolutely vehemently against. We’re also in this political age where compromise is forbidden. The thought is compromising means we’re losing and we can’t allow the other side to win.
I’m not really sure what the solution is but for people who are feeling absolutely defeated living in a place that consistently votes against their own interests, I can understand why they’d want to move.
I mean, I can understand why some people might move out of red states, as their rights are under attack, and the violent rhetoric (in some cases, not just rhetoric) being aimed at certain groups by the right wing would understandably put some at-risk people on edge, I would think. Some of those at-risk now seem to be not only just LGBTQ, POC, immigrants, but now even expanded things like teachers, librarians, government workers of various kinds (except military)…with the far right demonizing them with such ugly terms like “groomer” (projection, most likely) and “members of the Deep State” and so on.
As for right wing voters in blue states, I’m not sure what risk they would be fleeing from, other than catching feelings? I suspect their type of flight to a red state is much akin to white flight from urban centers to suburbia/exurbia…I bet much of it is because they feel their interests/privilege are not being sufficiently put onto a pedestal of supremacy and considered the unquestionable moral center of the universe…
