Proud to be an Okie From The Castro
We should have seen this coming:
Fleeing the Great Depression and a drought unprecedented in American history, a vast wave of Oklahomans and Texans dubbed “Okies” loaded everything they could onto crowded vehicles during the 1930s and headed west for California. Today, in huge numbers, their grandchildren are moving back…
…From 2004 through 2007, about 275,000 Californians left the Golden State for the old Dust Bowl states of Oklahoma and Texas, twice the number that left those two states for California, recent Internal Revenue Service figures show. In fact, the mid-South gained more residents from California during those four years than either Oregon, Nevada or Arizona. The trend continued into 2008.
As a result, it’s easy to find Californians – even former Sacramentans – living and working in Oklahoma City, a capital of the American heartland.
Let’s just hope that they leave their liberal politics behind. Massachusetts has hemorrhaged citizens to New Hampshire, fleeing confiscatory taxation, but they brought their moonbat political views with them. Now the state that made Ed Muskie cry is itself a bastion of bleeding hearts which seems to believe that the motto “Live Free or Die” is an invitation to go on welfare.
That couldn’t happen to O-k-l-a-h-o-m-a, could it? That would definitely not be OK.
Earl said,
June 15, 2009 @ 11:07 pm
Sadly, they do NOT leave their liberal politics behind….any more than the Mexicans fleeing their failing country leave behind what made their country fail. They bring it with them.
Colorado was a wonderful place to live and breathe in the 1970s, and there are still nice places there. But expatriates from other, more liberal, states have moved to Colorado to escape the mess that their politics created where they came from. And now what? Colorado is circling the drain, as well.
Where do these maroons propose to go, next?
(And no, I do not live in Colorado - did that in grad school.)