Red states recover faster than blue

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most people last about 5 years in Fla before they realize what they gave up in the north. Then if they are young and not on probation, they move. If they are old they are stuck until they die. Neither is economically reliable. Then Florida falls into a slump until the next boom of suckers trying to relive their childhood dreams.

-Florida native

I have heard similar about people who move down there when they first retire but this is different now. I know a lot of families who have moved to Florida in the past decade. This was long before retirement and all before covid. All are happy and none are leaving. They say it’s a great place to raise their families, contrary to what you read about the schools here. I admit, I’m jealous of their lives every time I visit.

Summers are unbearable. And with global warming (a term DeSantis tut tuts), why move to a place where the heat is going to get even worse?

Even DC's starting to get unbearable. When I'm ready to move anywhere it will be to a friendly place further north, and NOT to the godforsaken South.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We knew this over a year ago.

Between the Covid restrictions and the ridiculous remote "learning," many people have decided they prefer the freedom red states have to offer.

That is why Covid policy is a big deal when voting. If you liked the blue states' policies, vote for them. I'll stick with the route the red states took.

Freedom???? Where have you been the past couple of weeks? There’s no freedom for any female capable of bearing children anymore in those states.

I’m pro-choice. Choosing to have or not have an abortion is something that may or may not affect me a few times in my (or my daughters’ lifetime).

What the Democrats did outweighed that by a million times. The Democrats took away my kids schools. The Democrats used the pandemic to take away so many of our freedoms. The Democrats took away people’s right to work with their bogus vaccine mandates. They Democrats (NYC) took away kid’s rights to do pretty much anything with an unethical vaccine mandate for kids age 5+. The Democrats pushed for travel restrictions and mask mandates.

Yes, that matter more to me because it affected every single individual in my family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most people last about 5 years in Fla before they realize what they gave up in the north. Then if they are young and not on probation, they move. If they are old they are stuck until they die. Neither is economically reliable. Then Florida falls into a slump until the next boom of suckers trying to relive their childhood dreams.

-Florida native

I have heard similar about people who move down there when they first retire but this is different now. I know a lot of families who have moved to Florida in the past decade. This was long before retirement and all before covid. All are happy and none are leaving. They say it’s a great place to raise their families, contrary to what you read about the schools here. I admit, I’m jealous of their lives every time I visit.

Summers are unbearable. And with global warming (a term DeSantis tut tuts), why move to a place where the heat is going to get even worse?

I dont find the summers in the south subtaintially worse than DC's. I figure if global warming becomes a factor, we will just move again.

[Anonymous]

Red state women will be coming to the blue states to recover from their miscarriages. And red state pregnant children will come to recover from their rapists. Those who stay can have fun caring for the millions of unwanted babies you'll have next year. Hope you have enough formula.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We knew this over a year ago.

Between the Covid restrictions and the ridiculous remote "learning," many people have decided they prefer the freedom red states have to offer.

That is why Covid policy is a big deal when voting. If you liked the blue states' policies, vote for them. I'll stick with the route the red states took.

Freedom???? Where have you been the past couple of weeks? There’s no freedom for any female capable of bearing children anymore in those states.

I’m pro-choice. Choosing to have or not have an abortion is something that may or may not affect me a few times in my (or my daughters’ lifetime).

What the Democrats did outweighed that by a million times. The Democrats took away my kids schools. The Democrats used the pandemic to take away so many of our freedoms. The Democrats took away people’s right to work with their bogus vaccine mandates. They Democrats (NYC) took away kid’s rights to do pretty much anything with an unethical vaccine mandate for kids age 5+. The Democrats pushed for travel restrictions and mask mandates.

Yes, that matter more to me because it affected every single individual in my family.

Are you a covid-hoaxer with all that smooth-brained clueless BS? Had we not done those things our death toll would have been far higher and the impacts far worse. And why are you even still nattering on about this? Schools were reopened long ago, the vaccines saved hundreds of thousands of lives and virtually all of the restrictions have been lifted. And for whatever bogus fears you have about the vaccines, after hundreds of millions of doses administered, the proven risk has been shown to be astronomically tiny, as in you'd have a magnitudes-of-order larger chance of some rare event like being struck by lightning than have any damaging side-effect from the vaccine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We knew this over a year ago.

Between the Covid restrictions and the ridiculous remote "learning," many people have decided they prefer the freedom red states have to offer.

That is why Covid policy is a big deal when voting. If you liked the blue states' policies, vote for them. I'll stick with the route the red states took.

Freedom???? Where have you been the past couple of weeks? There’s no freedom for any female capable of bearing children anymore in those states.

I’m pro-choice. Choosing to have or not have an abortion is something that may or may not affect me a few times in my (or my daughters’ lifetime).

What the Democrats did outweighed that by a million times. The Democrats took away my kids schools. The Democrats used the pandemic to take away so many of our freedoms. The Democrats took away people’s right to work with their bogus vaccine mandates. They Democrats (NYC) took away kid’s rights to do pretty much anything with an unethical vaccine mandate for kids age 5+. The Democrats pushed for travel restrictions and mask mandates.

Yes, that matter more to me because it affected every single individual in my family.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste

[Anonymous]

Lib here who moved to a red state. I moved for the geography not the politics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok. Glad they recovered! Don’t want any state to do poorly. Guess that’s where we differ. Stop making every topic divisive, OP.

So those states will be purple now?

This is the assumption. I lived in a blue state and moved to a purple state. I voted mostly D, but anticipate I will be voting mostly R in the midterms and 2024. I dont know how this would register in any polls because I am a presumed Democratic voter.

Ok. Shrug. Vote for the insurrection party. Don’t whine when they dismantle the government and you aren’t one of the oligarchs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How unsurprising. Now that people can live wherever they WANT to live and work remotely, millions have moved to red states to do so.

By many mea­sures, red states—those that lean Re­pub­li­can—have re­cov­ered faster eco­nom­i­cally than De­mo­c­ra­tic-lean­ing blue ones, with work­ers and em­ploy­ers mov­ing from the coasts to the mid­dle of the coun­try and Flor­ida.

Since Feb­ruary 2020, the month be­fore the pan­demic be­gan, the share of all U.S. jobs lo­cated in red states has grown by more than half a per­cent­age point, ac­cord­ing to an analy­sis of La­bor De­part­ment data by the Brook­ings In­sti­tu­tion think tank. Red states have added 341,000 jobs over that time, while blue states were still short 1.3 mil­lion jobs as of May.

Sev­eral ma­jor com­pa­nies have re­cently an­nounced moves of their head­quar­ters from blue to red states. Hedge-fund com­pany Citadel said re­cently it would move its head­quar­ters from Chicago to Mi­ami, and Cater­pil­lar Inc. plans to move from Illi­nois to Texas.

To track each state’s progress to­ward nor­mal since the pan­demic be­gan, Moody’s An­a­lyt­ics de­vel-oped an in­dex of 13 met­rics, in­clud­ing the value of goods and ser­vices pro­duced, em­ploy­ment, re­tail sales and new-home list­ings. Eleven of the 15 states with the high­est read­ings through mid-June were red. Eight of the bot­tom 10 were blue.

The states that gained the most, led by Flor­ida, Texas and North Car­olina, are al­most all red, as de­fined by the Cook Po­lit­i­cal Re­port based on how states voted in the past two pres­i­den­tial elec­tions. The states that lost the most res­i­dents are al­most all blue, led by Cal­i­for­nia, New York and Illi­nois.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/red-states-winning-post-pandemic-economy-migration-11657030536

This is good news. Liberals/Dems moving to red states is the only way to undo the advantage Republicans have in the Senate and electoral college.

Come on, People, let's move! Turn those red states purple!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We knew this over a year ago.

Between the Covid restrictions and the ridiculous remote "learning," many people have decided they prefer the freedom red states have to offer.

That is why Covid policy is a big deal when voting. If you liked the blue states' policies, vote for them. I'll stick with the route the red states took.

I love the freedom that Texas gives women over their own bodies.

Versus the blue cities, like Los Angeles and NYC, who unethically pushed Covid vaccines on 12 year olds to attend public school.

No freedom for our families and our kids, I guess.

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We knew this over a year ago.

Between the Covid restrictions and the ridiculous remote "learning," many people have decided they prefer the freedom red states have to offer.

That is why Covid policy is a big deal when voting. If you liked the blue states' policies, vote for them. I'll stick with the route the red states took.

I love the freedom that Texas gives women over their own bodies.

Versus the blue cities, like Los Angeles and NYC, who unethically pushed Covid vaccines on 12 year olds to attend public school.

No freedom for our families and our kids, I guess.

No one ever had to be vaccinated to attend school before, right? What a bunch of delusional dopes.

[Anonymous]

I would never move to a red state to give up some of my basic human rights with high mortality rates for pregnancy and birth. Yay! The McDonald's opened in Texas before it didn't California. I don't really see how that is a determinant of success. I care more about those living below the poverty level in a state and what rights I have is a resident of that state.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We knew this over a year ago.

Between the Covid restrictions and the ridiculous remote "learning," many people have decided they prefer the freedom red states have to offer.

That is why Covid policy is a big deal when voting. If you liked the blue states' policies, vote for them. I'll stick with the route the red states took.

I love the freedom that Texas gives women over their own bodies.

Versus the blue cities, like Los Angeles and NYC, who unethically pushed Covid vaccines on 12 year olds to attend public school.

No freedom for our families and our kids, I guess.

No one ever had to be vaccinated to attend school before, right? What a bunch of delusional dopes.

This is what is so bizarre to me. Even in college in the '90s I had to prove that I had basic vaccinations or a religious exemption. I had to provide vaccination records for my children's school and their daycares from the time that they started so at about 6 months. Never has it been so controversial until Trump told people to start drinking bleach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Schools are going to be a mess tho. No thanks.

Florida - 9500 teachers short

[Anonymous]

Everyone is too busy homeschooling while complaining about school vaccines at the same time. If you homeschool why do you care if schools require vaccinations!? More waitlists for 10 am classes at the pool? I don’t get it