Mostly wonderful. There's patches of highway in Texas that smell very very bad and are infested with flying insects that are attracted to it. If you drive through at night you eventually have to pull over constantly and clean your windshield off so you can see the road. Can't imagine living nearby.
Said in a wry tone- because the climate is awful.
Jokes aside, this is why moving hurts. I’m in a position of a certain level of privilege. I can still help, but my vote there no longer exists.
Yeah, but everyone living in a red state needs to have a plan for if they wind up living in the wrong side of a civil war or if mass violence breaks out under other circumstances.
We are in severe danger of a total breakdown in basic public security.
Texan here. The decision to go into exile or not is so much more complicated than most people think. Here’s a very thoughtful article on the topic from an expert:
And most of these states are in fact not red, but rather gerrymandered to death and voter-suppressed!
People forget that before the Republican cabal, Texas elected Ann Richards as governor!
Upstate New York is every bit as rock-red as rural Texas and anyone that tells you any different is lying to themselves as much as anyone else. California is way more than its bustling liberal metros, not that you'd see it if you watched on the teevee, but the notion our fight is regional is absurd
You shouldn’t have to move to another state to have full human rights. We’re all Americans. Also don’t we want more Dem voters in those states? (Former GA resident)
