Blue state governors bash red states because they feel threatened

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The blue state vs. crimson state conflict is getting ugly.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom — who desires to run for president and apparently thinks he doesn’t have sufficient issues in his personal crime-ridden hobo-infested state —has been taking out adverts in Texas newspapers attacking Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for his usually unremarkable positions on abortion and gun management. Abbott has about the identical views as every other Republican governor, however Newsom clearly feels threatened by Texas, which has been consuming California’s lunch, which is little doubt vegan and gluten-free. Whereas Texas has its issues (its violent-crime fee is sort of equivalent to California’s), its low-cost/low-hassle enterprise surroundings is a standing rebuke to California’s mannequin of high-cost henpecking.

New York’s Texas is Florida, and Governor Kathy Hochul has declared that Republicans in her state ought to “simply soar on a bus and head all the way down to Florida the place you belong. OK? Get out of city. Since you don’t symbolize our values.” On this as in a lot else, she echoes her cretinous predecessor, Andrew Cuomo, who infamously mentioned that those that help the Second Modification or oppose the elective surgical dismemberment of unborn kids “haven’t any place within the state of New York.”

A homeless encampment in San Francisco, which has seen violent crime and drug deaths skyrocket since the pandemic — an accomplishment Newsom is unlikely to brag about while lambasting Gov. Abbott of Texas.
A homeless encampment in San Francisco, which has seen violent crime and drug deaths skyrocket because the pandemic — an accomplishment Newsom is unlikely to brag about whereas lambasting Gov. Abbott of Texas.
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New Yorkers — particularly those with cash and choices — appear to agree: Some 1.4 million New Yorkers left the state from 2010 to 2019, and one other 126,000 left simply between July 2020 and July 2021. Actually, 7.5% of Florida’s inhabitants was born in New York — a determine far larger than for every other state save Florida itself. That’s not an accident — that’s an indictment.

There’s one other method to measure the exodus: The marketplace for U-Haul vans.

Abbott makes for an easy Newsom target, but not necessarily a logical one — the Texas governor's views on issues like abortion and gun control are fairly in line with most Republican leaders.
Abbott makes for a straightforward Newsom goal, however not essentially a logical one — Texas’ violent-crime fee is sort of equivalent to California’s however its low-cost/low-hassle enterprise surroundings is a standing rebuke to the Golden State.
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has told Republicans in her state they should “just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong. OK? Get out of town.”
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has informed Republicans in her state they need to “simply soar on a bus and head all the way down to Florida the place you belong. OK? Get out of city.”
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If you wish to lease a 20-foot U-Haul for a one-way transfer from Austin to San Francisco on the finish of September, you possibly can have one for the very affordable fee of $1,735. If you wish to lease the identical truck for a similar dates however going the opposite manner — from San Francisco to Austin — then you’re looking at greater than six grand, greater than three-and-a-half instances as a lot. Need to lease a U-Haul from Jacksonville, Fla., to New York Metropolis? About 500 bucks. The opposite manner? Seven instances as a lot.

That isn’t provide, my coastal pals — that’s demand.

When Rick Scott was governor of Florida, he spent a whole lot of time in different states, assembly with enterprise leaders and dealing to influence them that they’d be higher off in his state or at the very least increasing their companies there. (That’s why now you can get a hoagie from Wawa, southeastern Pennsylvania’s iconic comfort retailer, in Orlando and Tampa.) Different Republican governors have achieved the identical factor. Because of this, Hewlett-Packard, as soon as the anchor of Silicon Valley, has discovered a brand new life in Houston. Tesla is now a Texas firm. So is Oracle. The one shock that got here with Chevron’s announcement that it’s shifting from California to Texas is that it hadn’t moved 20 years in the past.

Robberies like this one on a New York City bus last month have become depressingly common in Gotham. The city’s spiraling crime rate has sent thousands heading for states like Florida — and they’re not all Republicans.
Robberies like this one on a New York Metropolis bus final month have change into depressingly widespread in Gotham. The town’s spiraling crime fee has despatched hundreds heading for states like Florida — and so they’re not all Republicans.
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Run down Ron DeSantis or Greg Abbott’s right-wing politics all you want — persons are voting with their toes, and they’re taking their capital with them.

Right here’s a novel concept: Regular adults could also be pro-choice or anti-gun, however no person organizes their lives round that until they’re monomaniacs. Effectively-adjusted and mature folks care about having higher jobs, higher houses, the next way of life, and — dare we hope? — fewer used heroin needles underfoot or even a couple of much less half-naked lunatics clubbing them over the top with rocks on the Q prepare.

Cities like Clearwater Beach in Florida have lured businesses and residents away from pricier, less hospitable cities like New York.
Cities like Clearwater Seashore in Florida have lured companies and residents away from pricier, much less hospitable cities like New York.
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Possibly New York expats can be bored down in Sugar Land, Texas. However they’ll be bored in a 3,000-square-foot home with a pool for lower than the worth of a 900-square-foot rental in Bay Ridge. And with no state revenue tax to pay, they’ll take into consideration Greg Abbott lower than you may count on. They might even come to love him.

Kevin D. Williamson is the writer of “Massive White Ghetto: Lifeless Broke, Stone-Chilly Silly, and Excessive on Rage within the Dank Woolly Wilds of the ‘Actual America.’”