They must want electricity like they've heard about in camp fire stories.
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I can't tell if this is just a joke about their electricity, or a joke about their electricity which happens to include a pun about the Camp Fire fires that started due to faulty electric transmission wires... if the latter, I salute you.
- in snow storm stories
I often work in rural TX. I've had a number of Texans suggest I ought to move there, cause muh freedums. Yeah, I target shoot a little, but I'm lefty as hell. I talk about guns sometimes to deflect questions about my politics.
They are so full of themselves. They think because great grandpa was a cowboy that they inherit all his toughness. I don't know how grandpa lived, but I know Texans today live mostly in air conditioning and love shopping, huge portions, and convenience. They're fully convinced there is nowhere better on Earth. But no, I've been all over the Earth. TX sucks and I'd never move there.
They're fully convinced there is nowhere better on Earth.
Huh. So Texas is to Americans what America is to the world. Interesting.
(I'm mostly joking...)
It's really accurate, though.
Most texans believe texas is the greatest place on earth while never having even left their state. That's how delusional they are.
Pretty much, I find it's funny that it's considered a Bastion of freedoms and a refuge away from the liberal policies of the world. When it actually is the state with the most human rights violations and the state where legally you actually have less personal freedom than any other state. I wouldn't go to Texas even if you paid me, I wouldn't go to Texas even if you could promise me a steak cooked on a propane grill by Hankster Hillington himself.
I'm born and raised in the valley north of Sac. Moved to texas after freshman year of highschool and been here for almost 20 years. I married a texan and God damn if it isn't difficult to extricate a texan from texas. She has since become a travelling surgical tech and is seeing the country. It took her a whole 2 contracts to be ready to move away from texas.
texas fuckin blows. The only people trying to stay here are the ones that have never left to see what's out there.
Texans are some of the most delusional people on the planet.
On both sides of the political spectrum.
Daily reminder that Texas sucks. So do Republicans.
Similar thing is happening here in Washington. A lot of people from Austin moving here because Texas politics are terrible.
Georgia ain’t great but it’s orders better than Texas and I bailed for Washington last year. Had to get out while the getting was good
Texas is on the level of: Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, South Carolina, and yes, even Florida.
The only people who don't agree are texas liberals who have lived in its major cities their entire lives. That's about 2 million general election voters perpetually waiting for 'the day that never comes' when texas actually becomes blue.
Alabama and Tennessee deserve mentions too
I'll give you Alabama.
Alabama
Alabama summers are proof there is a God and he hates all life that isn't gnats.
God is a gnat. Every other living thing is an accident. Alabama is proof.
I moved from Texas to Washington about 12 years ago. I noticed pretty quickly after moving that damn near any time I drive, I can spot a car with Texas plates if I look for one. I saw one just yesterday while I was taking a walk.
Texas politics are homo- and transphobic. Gladly a certain Trans Texan Twitch streamer left the state for safety.
And just straight up homicidal. How many people died in the summer AND winter because of their moronic power grid?
But but but I was told during the pandemic that these blue states were going to die because everyone was leaving for FREEDOM in TX and FL.
This is going to be really interesting to watch. If you look at the data over some decades, California has had cycles of net influx and net loss of people. We were losing people at a low rate for a bit before the pandemic, but it really increased drastically during it. Most people think it's because the availability of remote work surged, so people kept their salaries and went to places where the cost of living is cheaper. But with more companies wanting at least some in-office days, how many might come back? Should be interesting.
What an odd chart. Do the authors do any kind of correlation analysis on something like interest rates or median housing prices to explain the seasonality?
Most of the people I know who moved to Austin are looking to come back to the west coast due to concerns about their civil rights being removed and their overall safety. Blue city in a red state used to be a viable strategy, but several Republican governors are centered that the big centralized state government can tell the cities what to do, while simultaneously saying that the federal government can’t tell them what to do.
Yeah, the polarization between red and blue states has become pretty frightening, honestly. It's been theorized that the draconian laws against personal rights and freedoms in some red states is an actual Republican strategy to chase away liberals and moderates to prevent those states from turning purple, which is a real possibility for the ones with big population centers that tend to be blue.
Here's the article that that graph came from, and it has a bit of analysis with some other data, though maybe not what you're looking for.
Hey look it's me in the future.
Pretty sure liberals are starting to recognize texas is never going blue and they should just move so they stop contributing to its economy.
It's generally preferable to have running power and water during the winters, but that might just be me.
I think they just want infrastructure that actually works.
Tots and pears don't keep you cool in the summer or warm in the winter.