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Some of you whiny purple staters need to take these gripes up with your own tourism industries, because your reps are using your precious tax dollars on telling
by scotuswroteus 5y ago
Some of you whiny purple staters need to take these gripes up with your own tourism industries, because your reps are using your precious tax dollars on telling people like me in super blue America that I'd make a great fit in your neighborhood.
Ohio is advertising all up and down California asking people to move there. Ohio is specifically targeting the folks who live just north of Berkeley, California, where they make the mold for the stereotype you purple staters love to hate.
Ohio is also advertising that same message in Redhook in Brooklyn, again, where you can find the folks whose pictures are basically meme templates that old Trump voters use on their Facebook groups about antifa and critical race theory.
Maybe you all actually just dislike rich, out of touch, Ivy League elitists who move into neighborhoods and ruin them for locals. If that's the case, going to a coastal college doesn't make a person coastal. Last I checked, the Ivy League recruits from every state in the union, including your purple states, and most Californian cities actively demonize those same people who are ruining California cities too.
Anyway, this weekend, I'll be headed up to NASCAR Spring Smash in Roseville, California, where I will no doubt run into the types of Californians who ACTUALLY move to your states. They have all of your cultural tastes, and they read the same stuff you do, and they share your distaste for the archetypal Californian.
- taylodl 5y agoLet me explain how politics works in Ohio - one of the most famous of purple states or "battleground" states. It's a population of 12 million that's nearly evenly split between high-density urban areas and rural sprawl (that explains why Ohio is the 10th most densely-populated state in the U.S.). The folks in the urban areas tend to be extremely liberal and diverse (where I live has been a popular spot for homosexuals for decades and women can walk around topless and have been able to for decades and most are onboard with a progressive agenda). In the rural sprawl areas? Nope. Polar opposite. Ultra-conservative who've taken well to Trump. They call us purple, but we're not: we're red and blue. Move to an Ohio city and you'll do better if you're an "archetypal" Californian but if you move to the rural areas you'll do better if you're an archetypal Trumper. The biggest thing that unites us all is football, and no, I'm not even joking. Football is the biggest reason we can coexist peacefully and Trump tried to screw that up!
- lotsofpulp 5y agoI find that state laws make a big difference in quality of life, so it is not sufficient to be in a city with people whose politics match yours. You also need to be in a state where the political power rests with people whose politics match yours. On the state level, all the analyses I have seen indicate Ohio will be "red" going forward.
- taylodl 5y agoWhat kinds of state laws do you have in mind for making a big difference in quality of life?
- lotsofpulp 5y agoParental/family leave, sick leave, minimum wages (especially salaried), overtime laws, allow employees to sit, marijuana legalization, abortion choice (now that it is not allowed in some places), non compete bans, pay range disclosure laws. I am sure gun laws are a big one for many. If you need Medicaid, then I know some states opted out of assistance programs for that which would hurt your access to healthcare.
- scotuswroteus 5y agoYou don't think this is true of every purple state?