People are opting to move to politically compatible areas.

[Peregrine Took]

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/17/1081387076/america-is-growing-more-geographically-polarized.

My husband and I have been thinking along these lines for years. Blue states, blue suburbs and towns -this is where we want to live, spend time and spend our money

[sinkingfeeling]

1. I did that in 2020.

[TheRealNorth]

2. Problem is...

The most desirable blue areas tend to be the most expensive. Plus, I worry that this trend politically and strategically weakens us.

But you gotta do you.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Brain, culture, financial drain

Over time, civilization makes progress because knowledge wins out over ignorance, superstition, poverty, and stupidity.

[TheRealNorth]

4. But those wins....

are usually preceded by a whole lotta darkness.

[PortTack]

6. Thank you for reminding us of this basic fact! Gotta be in this for the long haul

[Dawson Leery]

5. If education matters, you are not living in a white flight exburb.

I was raised in one and it was not worth it.

In many of those rural areas, they are threatening violence now.

[FM123]

7. It's still hard.

I live in the blue part of our state (South Florida) in it's bluest county - Broward - but still the dangerous red crazies are always nearby ready to take you down. Add a redder than red governor (Ron DeSatan) to that mix and you start to feel sometimes like there is no safe place to rest your head, or heart.

[sanatanadharma]

8. Imagine a 1950's advertising new homes, new communities for you, the seeker of home!

Imagine a 1950's advertising new homes, new communities for you, the seeker of home!

Would you move to place questioning community and schools, but a place with lots of freedoms that count, like guns?
A community with no hope of keeping the kids home once they've seen Peoria.
A community of concerned neighbors, with strong opinions about 'stuff' in libraries, and stuff.
Neighbors with a nose for, a willingness to step-in, uninvited, always.
A community of opinionated people who reject your opinions; you too.
A community of churches who accept everyone who isn't them.
A community with roots, and traditions, and all kids of *isms; a picturesque place in a peeling-paint kind of way.

Now write your own 1950's TV ad for the new place of your home.

[Johnny2X2X]

9. Imagine wanting to raise your daughter in Texas right now

Texas, where rape as a procreation strategy is encouraged. Where you child can be forced to carry a fetus to term with no choice in what happens to her own body.