The Blue State Exodus Should Scare Democrats: The electoral consequences could be massive.

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31. This is simply not true

People keep posting "oh, everyone is leaving because they hate Texas's politics" and it's true, blue voters are unhappy with the politics in Texas (my husband and I certainly are.)

But the reality is, people are still moving to Texas in droves because they want to be able to afford a house. Period. You can't buy a house in California unless you have a spare million dollars. Same goes in many other blue states. Most young couples don't have this luxury. You have young couples who actually want to have kids (gasp!) and you have young couples who don't have kids but want to have a house anyway! And they are moving to places like Texas or Arkansas or North Carolina or Tennessee where they may not love the politics, but they love the idea of having a yard and their own house. So they pick a little blueberry democratic city in a sea of red state, and it's okay for them. (Austin, Houston, Dallas.)

But absolutely, this population shift could cost us greatly and could make it where all the efforts in the swing states don't matter.

Gavin Newsom has been the governor of California for how long now? Maybe instead of platforming right wing idiots on his podcast, he should do something about California's housing crisis and unaffordability problems so that we don't lose all those electoral votes.