Commentary
I have written before—and am writing in more detail in my (slowly) forthcoming book “The Southbound Train”—how the new political migrants to red states from blue are often more devoted constitutional conservatives than the longtime residents of those supposedly conservative red states themselves.
It’s the reverse of the cliché that many believed—that the refugees from California, New York, and Illinois, pouring into places such as Florida, Texas, and Tennessee were just looking for tax havens and were going to infect their new homes with their liberal values.
Most of them are anything but liberal or progressive. Just go down to the Bold Patriot Brewing Co. that decamped in 2019 for Nashville, Tennessee, from Norco, California, look around for 10 minutes, and you’ll see what I mean.
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