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The Red State Brain Drain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now.
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Easier to bear, maybe, but not great. You're likely making some pretty big trade offs. Like, Wisconsin is probably cheaper but it might be way more hostile to you if you're gay or black or otherwise considered an outgroup by the right.
And even if you're otherwise an in group, what're the music, food, and art, scenes like? If all you want to do is work and then sit at home on your couch then I guess one place is as good as another. Though this might be getting into an urban/not-urban divide more than left/right.
And furthermore, even if your "cost of living" is lower in the extreme short term, if you're in a right wing hellscape then you have to pay one way or another for the state being gutted. There's a non-fiction book titled "A libertarian walks into a bear" that talks a lot about how there were two neighboring towns, but one had gone hard right with its policies. The other had not. Turns out the libertarian one sucked. Like, they didn't have a working fire department.
That town was in New Hampshire, tho I can't recall the name from memory.
They voted out their garbage collection service. Civic overreach or some bullshit. Then the bears came, and got accustomed to being around people. And started breaking into homes. People were attacked. I think there was at least one casualty.
Libertarianism is great for the individual, but anti-thetical to the needs of the group.
I don't know why it's so hard for some people to acknowledge that their own personal choices and beliefs might not make the best policy. Government and law, do not need to mirror your internal dialogue. That is some serious center of the universe shit right there. They'd do well to ponder on the notion of sonder.
Was this oart of their Free State Project?
I believe so, yea
Worth noting that Wisconsin is a blue-voting state, generally, that has a heavily gerrymandered legislature.
Most of Wisconsin is absolutely nothing like the deep south kind of red state.
This is, as you surmise, almost entirely an urban/rural thing.
The parts of deep south red states where people actually live are absolutely nothing like the deep south kind of red state either.
Ditto. Spent the summer in Madison, WI, earlier this year. Anyone who tried to say that it represents the effects of conservatism is a fool.
I don't know why I picked Wisconsin. Possibly because I vaguely remembered Scott Walker being a huge asshole