Just over half of California’s registered voters have considered leaving the state, with soaring housing costs cited as the most common reason for wanting to move, according to a new poll.If the population of CA becomes overwhelmingly Democrat, the likelihood of elections in which the winner of the national popular vote doesn’t win the presidency will increase. Whether Democrats win CA by one vote or 10 million votes, the state’s electoral college votes for a Dem remain exactly the same.
Young voters were especially likely to cite unaffordable housing as a reason for leaving, according to the latest latest UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll conducted for the Los Angeles Times. But a different group, conservatives, also frequently suggested they wanted to leave — and for a very different reason: They feel alienated from the state’s political culture.
Republicans and conservative voters were nearly three times as likely to have seriously considered moving as their Democratic or liberal counterparts — 40% compared with 14%, the poll found. The conservative voters mentioned taxes and California’s political climate as a reason for leaving more frequently than they cited housing.
CA being both an uncongenial residence for conservatives and a high tax burden state were clearly motivations for the DrsC to leave and domicile in WY. And we are personally acquainted with several other emigres with similar motivations.
