Andrew Malcolm has had enough.
We’re thinking of getting out, too. I’ve loved this state since I first visited it on a family vacation over half a century ago, but the inmates are running the asylum in Sacramento.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Over one in three San Franciscans are thinking of leaving.
Close to 1/3 of all residents of California were not born in the US. At this point the state should just be given back to Mexico and call it a day. Naturally a heavily guarded wall would have be built at the Nevada and Arizona borders so that the infection doesn’t spread.
I was a native Californian when it was rare…
I am not a Californian any more…even when I visit, I am appalled at how dirty, crowded, and poorly maintained it is. Then I look at the various state and local budgets and wonder where the money went.
As for New Hampshire, Mr. Malcolm can take his parochial bi-coastal view to Tennessee and keep it there, as much good it will do him. We have the first in the nation primary written into our state constitution for a reason which is clear enough to anyone who lives in a less populous state or has operated a bulldozer. OTOH if its just geographical area and not population he’s bitching about, then Alaska ought to go first. Not clear to me what his thinking was here.
The problem New Hampshire is suffering from is the mass immigration northward from ill-affordable and deep blue Massachusetts. Which has been exporting that contagion for a decade or more before it started spreading out of California. As a result and because we ARE a small state, we have all blue federal representation. Thanks to the “endearing” block voting habits the migrating Massholes brought with them. I too am a former Illinois resident and thus have good reason to fear for this state, knowing what one party representation can do
forto a State. I used to do split-ticket voting based on the individual merits of the candidates. Not so much anymore. Whither the days of Humphrey and Rudman? Alas, like the Old Man of the Mountain, who went tumbling down in the fog at the start of black fly season, gone for good? At least I was here beforehand to experience a part of that.