Another possibility: Blue states got so expensive precisely because so many people wanted to live there and consequently moved there — supply and demand, etc. A

Another possibility: Blue states got so expensive precisely because so many people wanted to live there and consequently moved there — supply and demand, etc. And so, when opportunities opened up in red states, it made sense for some of the newly-dissatisfied blue-staters to relocate there. Yeah, they might well gradually turn some of those "nice" red states purple, or even blue — c'est la vie.