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I get that "voting with your feet" is complicated because there's a complex web of social and economic factors factoring into a decision to relocate, and red states have managed to successfully paint themselves as attractive places to live due to the cheap costs of housing and low taxes (successfully obscuring that this comes at the expense of amenities and social services), but how can this be sustainable? Why would someone move to a place that is literally putting out the unwelcome mat? Why does Idaho have one of the highest population growth rates in the country?
Without googling - my wild guess is the biggest thing is that the cost of living - probably rent in particular - is lower than the national average. Also - politics play into it but how much I don't know.
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Really cool how we can have soft right-wing coups in random parts of the country and nothing happens.
We're a right-wing country. This place is infested with fascists. sigh
To borrow from an old t-shirt slogan, a fascist country with a democracy problem
Something something no panic when all according to plan.
Fascists running most of the country? No one bats an eye. But one mayor in a city just thinks working class people are getting ripped off? Well then everyone loses their minds.