Do you live in a red state

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19. The economy has changed.

Hardly anyone works at the same career for a lifetime, much less the same company. It is all contract work and gigs and small businesses now. And small business adds more to local economies too. Jobs and profits don't get outsourced the way big companies do. Corporate talent isn't taxed as extravagantly, but they sill want good public schools and nice public amenities. Things the GOP despises. Cities and states who can attract the talent win because that creates more jobs and increase the local tax base. The ones that don't are dying.

The GOP doesn't care. They would rather let their states die economically than change or risk getting voted out of power. Lets be real. Most of us mobile workers don't vote the 'right' way. If you are mentally and emotionally flexible enough to navigate the perils of self employment successfully, rigid RW ideology probably doesn't appeal. So they are driving us out by making it too expensive and uncomfortable to stay, I guess. Killing the goose who laid the golden egg, IMO, but you can't reason with them.