It comes as a shock to nobody that California is as blue as blue states come, but we may have just gone off the deep end. California’s policy and legislative failings have become so outlandish that citizens are leaving the state en masse because of it.
High taxes, a lack of support for law enforcement, increased illegal immigration, and a housing crisis have all contributed to the high risk and high-cost lifestyle that has become the norm in California. All of these problems have received a lack of solutions from Democrats in power, frustrating voters to the point of completely giving up on any hope this state may have had for redemption.
They’re moving to places with stronger laws, lower housing costs, and more reasonable tax rates. Most of these places, incidentally, are states with more conservative legislatures.
But the migrating Californians aren’t just conservatives—over half of the registered voters in California are considering leaving the state. Over one million people moved out of California between 2007 and 2016, demonstrating a trend that should be alarming to elected Democrats. Sadly, it’s not, and no mass exodus can make them begin to put their constituents over their party.
Some might tell you that politics isn’t the reason people choose to move, but it can’t be denied that many of the concerns Californians have are directly tied to the direction that the state’s political culture is moving. We need to face the facts: our legislature is doing bad things, and those things are the responsibility of the party in charge—the Democratic Party—to fix in coordination with Republicans.
Unfortunately, Democrats simply aren’t willing to fix them. Until they do, we’ll continue to see these “mysterious” migration patterns.
