Leftugee

Just as a refugee resettles to escape hardship, a leftugee does so to flee the punitive financial environment created in their state by big government.

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But the fact that leftugees move in pursuit of more-affordable housing or to escape chronic traffic jams does not mean they all prefer a pure “red” policy model of low taxes and fewer services. To the contrary, blue-state migrants may nudge the politics of their new homes — and the new congressional districts to be drawn around them — leftward, while avoiding the worst liberal excesses they left behind.

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There's dispute over whether the newcomers will change state politics in the South, as they may have in North Carolina, which elected a Democratic governor in 2016, or are “leftugees” fleeing liberal policies who will embrace conservatism.

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Forbes.com had a stark March 2021 headline for what's happening around the country: “America's Mass Migration Intensifies as ‘Leftugees’ Flee Blue States and Counties for Red.”

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