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This Revealing Chart Shows You Exactly What the Calif. Exodus Looks Like

Between municipal bankruptcies, rising taxes, the proposal of new taxes, and the promise of friendlier business climates in other states, the exodus of business leaders and U.S. residents from California is wholly unsurprising.

And this isn’t some new phenomenon. No, the Golden State has been bleeding residents for years, which is a shame considering all that the state is capable of.

“For most of its history, California has occupied a special place in the mind of most Americans. From the height of the Gold Rush through the 1980s, California’s warm weather and booming economy drew enterprising, educated and talented immigrants from across the country. California was the melting pot of America’s melting pot, leading all states in the number of residents who were born in other U.S. states,” the Washington Examiner’s Conn Carroll writes.

Sadly, as Carroll notes, that California does not exist anymore.

“According to a 2012 University of Southern California study on state demographics, you have to go back to the early 1990s to find a time when more Americans were moving to California than leaving it for other states,” he writes. “Thanks to high housing prices and a weak job market, California is now a net exporter of U.S. citizens to other states.”

And in case you’d like help visualizing some of this, we have you covered. The below chart from the U.S. Census Bureau perfectly illustrates Carroll’s point:

This Stunning Chart Shows You Exactly What the Calif. Exodus Looks Like

U.S. Census Bureau


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Comments (327)

  • hi
    Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:51pm

    They move then vote again for progressivism and destroy their new state.

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    • naughtycal
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:56pm

      Exactly like a cancer

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    • demsrtraitors
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:56pm

      yes, liberals , especially those from California are the Cancer or the HIV of freedom.

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    • cantfixstupid
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:07pm

      Agreed. Colorado could certainly use some liberal-chemo right now. Flying the CO flag at half-mast.

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    • red_white_blue2
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:10pm

      That’s a good point. Maybe we should have an education tutorial for CA residents who want to move to a non-liberal (smart) state. Unfortunately, I’m still living in a stupid state.

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:28pm

      Eastern Europeans did, are doing, the same thing to America. They brought their communism here.

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    • Obama_Sham
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:31pm

      “I’d like to share a revelation I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with their surrounding environment, but you Californians do not. You move to an area, You move to an area and you multiply… and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Californians are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague, and we … are the cure.” An adaptation to a quote from Agent Smith in The Matrix…

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    • EricStoner
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:33pm

      Good point. I marvel at our illegal immigrants protesting with flags of the country they left, supposedly because it was a crap hole and then supporting pandering politicians who will turn this country into the same crap hole they left. Where to go next when that happens. Same with people fleeing and doing the same to other states, where you going to go next? Keep in mind we are in the clutches of the Democrat Party so no blaming the Republicans, they own it here and people should pay attention. Sadly, at one time in history the name Brown was respected but as usual the spoiled rich kids have sullied their nest.

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:34pm

      Hit nail on head. Leave the state they have decimated and go and destroy the new one. I have said it many times before and I will say it again. We will never be rid of this pestilence until every last one of them is driven into the ocean or buried where they fall. The only good commie is a dead commie.

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    • darkknight91
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:47pm

      Do you really want those people in your state?

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    • watashbuddyfriend
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:47pm

      HI, and Naughty, you both are so right! I think, e.g. Texas is already experiencing the ‘cancer.’

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    • jbfastpitch
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:47pm

      Inmates escaping from California want elect similar slave masters in the new home states. It’s the Stockholm syndrome.

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    • redfish52
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:48pm

      Now I see what happened to Texas…

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:55pm

      Yeah, I emailed a Blaze Moderator and he told me they hardly ever smash people’s posts. But they smashed mine. Let me “sanitize” it.
      We will never be rid of the parasites until every last one of them is either driven into the ocean or dropped.

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    • ozchambers
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:02pm

      This explains the hippie, new agers showing up in the mountains near Ashville, NC

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    • CLEttinger
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:05pm

      They all pulled a Steve Urkel, “Did I do that?” Then left the state to infect others.

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    • LakeHartwellSailor
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:06pm

      More like locust.

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    • WarMunger_Al
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:20pm

      this is how they destroy the nation. Spreading the plague.

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    • wzanesdad
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:25pm

      I think there is some progressives that are moving to other states from cali….however, I know a lot of conservatives there that are just sick of what has happened to that beautiful state. They have done everything they could to make things right but there is simply too many liberals there. Most of them are just sick of it. They are moving to get their freedom back. Californians have helped arizona from going down the wrong path on many occasions by standing up at town hall meetings and telling the story of what happened to them. Don’t judge all of them by where they came from.

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    • samnjoeysgrama
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:36pm

      Exactly why Colorado is currently such a hot progressive mess. We (I live in Park County CO) used to not want anymore Texans. Now we pray the new neighbor is from Texas. They are decent friendly people. Not the case with the Californians. They are rude, pushy, and vote for cr#p like gun control and marijuana. We now have gangs in the cities and drugs in the schools. I may move to Texas.

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    • bbyrdhouse
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:40pm

      @HI

      EXACTLY!
      They spread their communism across the country this way.

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    • Boots1
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:44pm

      @Jerk… the Eastern Europeans I know are far more patriotic than the vast majority of American born liberals. I have a Polish friend who was a child under Soviet rule and fears for the future of freedom. Another friend, Romanian, came here with her mother and based on anecdotal stuff from her mother knows how lucky she is to be here. The point is I trust Eastern Europeans more than I trust any liberal. I’m a supplanted Californian who isn’t an infection because I tell anyone who will listen how we had better not follow the lead of a failing state… West Greece. I suspect Obamacare will help speed the collapse of California (and Illinois and New York) so that we can start fixing the problems.

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    • wzanesdad
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:45pm

      smandjoeysgramma,
      I have a friend that lives in broomfield co, and she blames the mess on transplants from the east.

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:45pm

      These POS have totally destroyed Colorado, like one posted,
      they are like a malignant cancer… They have devoured their
      once Beautiful State turned it into a .. Denver is a good
      example of what these leeches will do to your Cities and State..
      You can thank Pelosi,Boxer,Miller,Feinstein, the Sanchezzes,
      Ratface and the rest of these Demorats…Liberal Slime….
      Progressive Mexifornia is living PROOF to what they do…

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    • kadster01
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:47pm

      It’s the same in my state of NC. Liberals from the north move down here because they’re miserable back home, but then they bring their liberalism with them and wreck the south!

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    • kaydeebeau
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:49pm

      Exactly – look at the leftward trend in the states getting the Califonication transplants.

      Typical leftists – crap in your own back yard, shovel the crap around into different piles to clear a path for yourself, then when there is too much crap, rather than getting rid of the crap, you move to begin creating more crap piles in a new place.

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    • ScottyJ
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 3:17pm

      Darn! CA has enough libs to turn red states blue and still retain its own blueness. I escaped CA in the 90s, but they’re going to come get me in the long run. Help!

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    • Agent Oroko
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 3:21pm

      Let me say that here in South Oklahoma, we have more jobs than people who want to work. So if you are an conservative exile from California, we welcome you with open arms, and jobs to fill. Please come here and help fill up our open positions, low cost of living, and 8.5% tax rate.

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    • angeleyes63
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 3:27pm

      That’s why I say liberalism is a mental disorder.

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    • Bottomdog
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 3:35pm

      WZANESDAD you are correct I moved to Cal from NY 40 years ago. ran from this c#4p to N. Cal from LA. but this S#*t came north. We had to move again to North Carolina. I fought like hell to stop this starting with Ca prop. 13 and ever chance I had, until we moved out of state. It was futile some people wanted to divide the state so LA and S F were in the south. The remainder of the state was run by these big voting blocks and they sucked the life from the rest of the state . Texas keep an eye on Austin the same can happen there

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    • Buglessduster
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 3:55pm

      You are absolutely right. I live in North Carolina, one of the states that people are migrating to, and there are enough people moving here from NJ, NY, PA and CA to make a huge difference when it comes to voting. We just got our first toll road, unions are springing up, graffiti is everywhere and we have snarling traffic. And of course, we have the highest taxes in the southeast and a state that is deep in debt.

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    • the_original_MRAD
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 4:28pm

      Just to give you ignorant people a true lesson, 90% of those people leaving california are like me and my friends and family. We all hate democRATS and the polticians that control our state. We hate the fact that we cant even start a small business because the fee’s and licencing cost more than the actual suplies.
      We dont vote for the commies that run the state only the illegal mexicans and the “hippies” as you say do. And guess what they out number us like flys on your dirty wifes ars. And those people who vote democrat will never leave and will never admit they ran our state into a welfar and mexico state.

      And trust me i was in the military and have lived in probably 20 of our states (for the military and my job) and nothing comes close to california in beauty and friendliness in the people and the state. Only states that comes close are alaska, wyoming, montana and the dakota’s.
      I havent been back to live in california in 2 years and problanly wont ever go back, but i would rather sit on a fireant hill covered in honey than go back to texas (esp san antonio aka little mexico) or florida. And all i ever here on here is how good those states are.
      For a business texas is great but as far as beauty and people it is crap. Florida is semi good people surrounded by gangsters, snakes, alligators, swamp, crappy beaches and minimal beauty.
      now i know everyone one is gonna foam at the mouth in responce to this so please get your heart meds ready be replying.

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    • talldarlin
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 4:38pm

      Not all of us who leave are progressives. A lot of us are conservatives escaping a progressive state. So I have not destroyed the new state I now live in…thank you very much.

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    • riddler01
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 4:46pm

      Exactly

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 4:50pm

      I got out but I never did fit in. Still own a home there. Looks like that may be the case for some time to come as the economy shows no true recovery in the foreseeable future. Sigh.

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    • eyesofmowrer
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 4:57pm

      You are forgetting that most counties in California are RED. However, California is ruled by the metro areas of San Francisco and LA.

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    • HeldHostageInCA
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 5:13pm

      I’m born an raised in California. Not all of us are that are moving are Libs. Conservatives are leaving. We acquired land in southern Missouri. Conservatives like me are moving to places that fit our ideology. We try to stay and fight for our state, we’re just outnumbered.

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    • StandingOnMyHead
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 5:14pm

      Watch out Georgia, Florida and North Carolina, they are coming for you!

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    • artman
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 5:15pm

      They move to another community, get on the school boards and city councils and then proceed to turn their new community into a copy of the one they left. A liberal will never give up on liberalism. Even though its proven suicide over and over.

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 5:38pm

      The_Jerk: “Eastern Europeans did, are doing, the same thing to America. They brought their communism here.”

      Yeah, people like me that risked their lives to escape communism are so keen to recreate it. Not!
      Frankfurt School denizens were all Western European.

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    • michael48
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 5:44pm

      50s-60s..Clifornia was the greatest place on Earth to be a kid and raise a family….the dem-wits have turned paradise into a PIG PEN….64 years there…packed up buss. , family and moved to America…

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 5:45pm

      the_original_MRAD,

      Lived in TX for a while. Not sure what kind of people you’ve met there, but in rural TX where I lived, the folks were friendliest and most helpful group on earth.

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    • ltb
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 6:19pm

      Hi, you are so right and I was hoping those people weren’t moving to Texas. These parasitic Liberals screw up one state by sucking it dry, then they move to a new host.

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    • Wolfgang the Gray
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 6:27pm

      Exactly. Why don’t they move to the progressive states in the Northeast? They want to go where liberty lives and kill it by changing things to the CA model. Just like a virus. There we have it in scientific medical terms, progressives are a disease upon the nation and the brain of Washington is severely impared.

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    • Bub47
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 7:08pm

      Michael48: I echo your sentaments exactly. Born in 47 just east over the hill from berkeley. For the record, in the early 60′s at age 14 my friends and I would and could hitchhike with our 22 cal rifles to go plinking in the hills. In 65 we got busted for beer and having a blank gun war. Our punishment: our fathers had to come and pick us up…….. I picked up my family and left for the Oregon outback 2 years ago. Now we even have illegals here. What are they here for??? Cartel pot growing in the hills??? Oh and it is Portland that makes this a blue state. For a good send up stream ‘Portlandia’ from Netflix.

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    • turkey13
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 7:37pm

      I wish Mary Fallon could stop them at the Oklahoma border. Our unemployment is staying between 3.5% & 4 %.. They come here and can’t believe we only average about $12 to $ 14 an hour. Then they find out their California $600,000 home only will cost $180,000 here and we are stuck with them. They then want to unionize and destroy us like they did their home.

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    • Comtnman
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 9:21pm

      Very disheartening. I moved from Southern California to Colorado five years ago to escape the liberal agenda. In short order, I now live in a state that has infringed on my Second Amendment freedoms, has recreational marijuana, civil unions and in-state tuition rates for illegal immigrants. So the conversation with my wife turns to where do we move now – AZ, TX, WY?

      I refuse to have the liberals drive me out out of some of the prettiest country in the U.S.A. It is time to stop running and fight the liberal agenda head on!

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    • oldguy49
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 10:51pm

      yep…..Colorado does come to mind

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    • From Virginia
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 11:27pm

      Not true! Not with everyone! I’m a 3rd generation native Californian and I left the state 20 years ago to go to Oklahoma. Everybody I met there was also a Californian. The Okeys used to joke that the grandkids were coming back that left during the Dust Bowl and Great Depression. I think I was there 6 months before I met a native Oklahoman. I never voted the entire time I was there.

      I now live in Virginia and HAD only voted for conservatives. Now, after the last election I’m thinking I quit. Although, there IS that local election that I DO care about come November.

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    • From Virginia
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 11:30pm

      I’ve noticed that since O’Malley has been governor of Maryland that’s they’ve bled residents that have turned Virginia blue. Twice (after MASSIVE voter fraud) Virginia has elected obummer with the help of these Maryland refugees.

      There really should be a law (I’m kidding – but kinda not) that if you screw up your state you should have to stay there and suffer the consequences.

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    • DebateMe
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 11:41pm

      @Hi
      People who leave CA because of it’s crappy anti-business anti-capitalism policies are likely not liberal. They are people and businesses who don’t think it’s a crime to make a profit and keep more of what they earn than what the government takes. These are the people you DO want in your state. I left CA in 2009 after running a small business there for 20 years for exactly these reasons – you are practically satan in the eyes of the CA government if you are a business owner there. Like a lot of other people, I had enough. But CA doesn’t care and you can show them charts, numbers, and facts all day long and their attitude is, ‘don’t let the door hit you on the a$$ on your way out.’ It’s that attitude which will eventually sink CA into a sea of red ink and they’re already well on their way.

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    • sacwoodpusher
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 12:03am

      No! I am living in CA now, but I am a PA Dutch Republican, and president of 2 companies. I am considering moving from CA, but I am actually a Tea Party Republican…..Anti-drug, but Tea Party in terms of wanting small government. SF and LA are liberal enclaves, but the rest of CA is conservative……But we are SO OUTNUMBERED. A

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    • Vonmo
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 2:04am

      Listen HI! As a resident of Colorado for 46 years I am now ashamed to make that claim. look at what is now happening in Colorado. Save your state and fight for your rights. Those of you living in states that actually stand up for the rights of their residents have no idea what it feels like to be betrayed by your elected officials. After the last election cycle when the left won control, all hell has broken loose here.

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    • Dr Vel
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 2:42am

      naughtycal “Exactly like a cancer”

      More like locusts, or bedbugs. Or both. No good, no prosperity, no peace ever has or ever will come from the left.

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    • Alternative_Thought
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 8:06am

      Just like Mexicans, Perry gives them sanctuary cities and they vote to turn Texas into a nanny state. One of these days they’ll succeed.

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    • TAS092101
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:14am

      Some of you are so stupid and ignorant, it’s amazing with your dumb comments. Not all of the people that leave California are liberals. It’s no wonder why this country is heading in the direction it is. Instead of using your brain to make a difference, you name call and call yourself, well, i don’t know what you people like to call yourself. It took until I read “wzanesdad” post that someone actually is thinking and sees exactly what is going on. I live in CA for 36 years, i am 44, married with two kids and would not want to raise my kids there. Taxes are high, home prices are disgusting and if you are a conservative, like i am, then, its only the right thing to do is move. Before some of you speak out your arse, try and use your brain to find out why some of them them are moving. You may learn something new. I know, shocking.

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    • rosegrower
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:20am

      Thank God none of them are heading for the midwest! Let them gravitate to already-left leaning states and create the same messes there that they voted for in California. The dirty little secret is – we don’t want them!

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    • Herrmadl
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 2:00pm

      Agreed, if you leave the State because of its stupid laws, taxes etc then don’t bring the BS with you when you get to the new State.

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    • AMidnightRider
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:11pm

      How about we kick CA out of the US and then deport all the transplants that can’t pass a US Citizenship test based on the Constitution, Free Markets, and Liberty?

      For that matter we could do the same to New England and much of the East coast. I would hate to loose the original 13, but it’s obvious they have “progressed” far beyond the rest of us.

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    • KOseekingtruth
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:32pm

      Not ALL Californians are liberal,Please don’t lump us conservatives in with the nut jobs.

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    • glassaudioguy
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:47pm

      @The Jerk- most of the time I’m not a fan of your comments but tonight this one was spot on. If anyone wants to know why MN and WI are so liberal it was because German socialists were kicked out of their homeland and they ended up coming here.

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    • ColoradoConservative156
      Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:38am

      That’s right. Check out Colorado. Two Democrat senators, Democrat governor, gun control, civil unions, blah, blah, blah. I wish they would go back to California. They are screwing up this state…

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    • Berferd
      Posted on March 15, 2013 at 6:12am

      This fanning out of Californication progressives will be devastating to the country.

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    • CaptainD51
      Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:21am

      I live here in California and other than the “cancer” they would bring with them, I would “love it” if the Liberals left. The problem I see is it’s the Conservative business owners that are leaving so we are stuck with a higher concentration of Liberals to Conservatives.

      What many are seeing across this country is the results of sending their kids to Colleges where they get so thoroughly brainwashed that they come back a Liberal. My Niece would be a classic example. She use to be a Conservative minded child and is now a full blow Liberal.

      What’s even more ironic, the parents pay for the brainwashing.

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    • simpletony
      Posted on March 16, 2013 at 11:34am

      This is correct, and is a horrible shame. I wish they’d remain in the state they already ruined

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    • jmcenanly
      Posted on April 5, 2013 at 3:44pm

      It sounds like a virus.

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  • RedDirtTexas
    Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:50pm

    We should build a great rock wall around California (using cheap Mexican labor of course) and sell the thing to the Chinese for say…20 trillion dollars! Pay off our bills while simultaneously giving the people there the giant, oppressive government they always wanted! As a bonus, we get a shield against North Korea’s nuclear scuds!

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    • OldSurfRat
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:02pm

      Redd
      You mean build a sh-i-tt-y wall (:
      I like the way you think.

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    • VRW Conspirator
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:07pm

      @Red
      LOL…funny but no…CA might not be that shining State it once was…but it still produces nearly 1/4 of all the food in the USA, other than beef, and it still accounts for about 13% of the US GDP…roughly $2T per year…
      are you willing to have a foreign government that close to US soil? I know you were just using hyperbole but as CA goes, so goes the USA….Glenn talked about this nearly 2 years ago when he was warning of the PIGS collapse in Europe (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain).
      Not to mention CA is the 4th or 5th largest oil and natural gas producing State in the US…willing to see energy prices go up another 13%?? and if the eco-nazis would back off and let CA drill on the inner and outer continental shelf, CA would probably be #1 in oil and natural gas..

      TX and ND are booming with fracking and the US is now the Saudi Arabia of natural gas (enough for over 100 years of world use).. add CA to that mix and the US could be energy independent in a decade or less…

      We need to get the A-holes out of CA not get rid of CA…

      Now if you want, we could send all the illegals and Progressives to China instead. Heck, I would pay for that in a heartbeat. I mean they have all those ghost cities that need people right?? LOL

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    • Obama_Sham
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:32pm

      One could argue to not only sell California, but the entire left coast…

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    • The_Veteran
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:49pm

      Go ahead and sell it to the Chinese. Move the farming back to the rest of the US and cut off the water supply from the Rockies.

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    • RedDirtTexas
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:11pm

      @ VRW Conspirator…I know. But I’ve been in a sarcastic mood since I got up. Plus, I’ve got a loony-as-bat-$#!+ liberal sister-in-law who lives there and that’s all I can think of to keep her from visiting us! lol

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    • Cavallo
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:37pm

      @VRW, Then maybe California needs to be divided into two or three new States? North California and South California? Or maybe North South and Central California? While this might give progressives more seats in the Senate, there is a possibility of bringing back political and economic balance to the United States.

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:57pm

      It can’t fall off into the Pacific soon enough..you can only
      hope Congress is not in session when it does, God Bless..

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    • Dan_o
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 3:15pm

      VRW CONSPIRATOR, who cares what it produces if there is a net deficit? If I make 2 million a year and spend 5 million, I’m a drag on you.

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 4:08pm

      @Obama_Sham
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:32pm
      One could argue to not only sell California, but the entire left coast…
      Oregon and Washington were the first to go….west coast has to GO..
      goes to show , all it takes is one or two rotten apples to screw it up…

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    • Dr Vel
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 2:47am

      RedDirtTexas “We should build a great rock wall around California”

      China built their wall to keep the giants out. No wall can stop brainwashed fools.

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  • bondroid
    Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:49pm

    Unfortunately the California libs move to other states and try to turn them into the obscenity they “escaped” from.

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    • mayasaay
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:31pm

      Just like all immigration, legal and otherwise.

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    • From Virginia
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 11:43pm

      Not all of us do. I now live in Virginia (left California 20 years ago) and vote conservative. Always have. Our problem is the Marylanders escaping from O’Malley.

      Don’t forget that we gave you Ronald Reagan and I voted for him twice as president!

      The problem with California is the same problem alot of states have – they are ruled by the super cities that goble up all the electoral votes. Until the gop splits the difference (like the democrats do) they will never win another election. Why should all the states electoral votes go to one candidate if they only receive 50.1% of the votes? Gop needs to split it!

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  • matt_c
    Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:48pm

    It wouldn’t be so bad if the people leaving understood why things went wrong in CA and took up the opposite approach.

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  • Smokey_Bojangles
    Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:47pm

    Reminds me of a map from the 1950′s. The Spread Of Communism.

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  • Eric-n-OTown
    Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:45pm

    Only seven more years until the next census! Can’t wait to see what this exodus does to the electoral votes the state gets…

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    • OldSurfRat
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:00pm

      Eric

      Nope. The american community census is currently taking place.
      Never seen anything like it.
      Asks the following:
      What time each person living @ the address comes and goes.
      Incomes
      Heritage
      And much much more (48 questions).
      I told them that I would only supply what is required by the constitution.
      Total number of people living @ the address. “Thank you and good bye”

      Have never in my life seen anything like that. Cant wait until they ask how many guns are in the household.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:13pm

      Hi OldSurfRat,

      When did this happen and who was conducting it?

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    • TSUNAMI_22
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:38pm

      @ The-Monk

      Has anyone else had an issue lately with their posts not showing up at all? It’s happened twice to me today.

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    • OldSurfRat
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:48pm

      Monk

      Sent me 2 and then gave me a visit.

      http://www.census.gov/acs/www/

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    • OldSurfRat
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:49pm

      Monk

      Sorry
      Started oh about Nov and just got to the point of the visit.

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    • OldSurfRat
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:00pm

      Monk

      Look at this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWwjDlI0pi4

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    • Xiccarph
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:09pm

      May be a toss-up, the way they do voting in places like CA, it really may not matter much how many have actually left. The left-behind will just be counted a few extra times….

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 3:16pm

      Hi Hi OldSurfRat,,

      Thanks.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 3:19pm

      Hi TSUNAMI_22,

      No problems that I can see. Are you watching out for the c-u-m glitch?

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 3:39pm

      @TSUNAMI_22
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:38pm
      @ The-Monk

      Has anyone else had an issue lately with their posts not showing up at all? It’s happened twice to me today.
      Yes….I think a lot of people feel strongly about what is going on during this Corrupt Administration.
      We are being HAD, so these BOZO’s can line their pockets with our Tax Money..Green Crap and EPA Regs. Global Warming, Climate Change and all their other BS..

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    • Puddle Duck
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 7:24pm

      Surf Rat if thought the census was intrusive wait until you see the O Care application…15 pages !!!

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  • MisterSarcastic
    Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:43pm

    I notice none of them are coming to my state. I hope it stays that way. We have enough loons from off screwing things up.

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    • demsrtraitors
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:02pm

      good for you, Hopefully your state won’t be affected with the diseases these liberals are bringing with them too.

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    • termyt
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:14pm

      I’m thinking this map show why Colorado is having problems and 1/3 of the stories from Texas are some insane liberal thing. Immigration from California.

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    • jakartaman
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 5:45pm

      We need state border control/fences.
      Conservatives states need to stop all liberal state individuals at the border and check to see if they have a License to carry – If not turn them around

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  • NoMoMrNiceGuy
    Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:42pm

    Do not bring your Liberal Progressive Communist self serving tanned backside to Sunny Florida – WE DO NOT WANT YOU if you are of that ilk

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    • gyro
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:46pm

      identify infiltrate take over

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    • piper60
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:11pm

      It’s not just Californian liberals. Check out Vermont and southern New Hampshire.

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  • gyro
    Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:41pm

    people fallow jobs === jobs creat taxes === less jobs less taxes colected

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    • ASE
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:57pm

      Exodus means more taxes on those that remain – in the demokratic peoples republik of kalifornia

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  • THX-1138
    Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:41pm

    They forgot the big arrows from Mexico to Kalifornia.

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    • VRW Conspirator
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:55pm

      YES!!…one of the reasons I left wasn’t just because of the economy, Progressive government, or sorry state of education. It was the influx of illegals and the State’s utter REFUSAL to do anything about them.
      3 million of the 12 million reported illegals in the US live in CA…400K of them are school age children that get free breakfast, lunch, childcare, medical care…they cost the State roughly $10B a year, just for the children…when I left CA 2 years ago, they were looking at a $15B deficit….2/3 of that is just used on illegal children…

      I am all for immigration and improving your life but NOT on my dime!! Not when it takes my State from the BEST in the USA and 5th largest economy on Earth!! down to its present levels of default and ruin. The last 20 years have destroyed CA.

      I could have stayed…my bills were getting paid, I was getting a small raise every year…my wife and I were part of that EVIL top 10% income earners in the USA..(that only means you make over $100K combined per year)..you know..the 10% of working Americans that account for nearly 50% of government revenue…heck..my wife’s job had the potential to double our income in the next 5 years…but I saw the writing on the wall with Gov. MoonBeam’s re-election after he destroyed the State in the late 70′s… TIME TO RUN AWAY!!…

      I cry for my family and friends still there, some are clueless, some can’t afford to move away…

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    • Puddle Duck
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 7:36pm

      Those Public Sector Union contracts negotiated by Moonbeams first go around as Governor are the largest driver of taxes and regs in California today….re electing Brown to fix a mess he himself created (years earlier) was likely the last straw for many in the state and now many of them are leaving. If the Feds have to bail out California watch for that money to have many onerous strings attached to it. How many more blue states on the ropes will it take for the Dem voters to realize that socialist policies do not, nor have they ever, worked ?

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  • s_usa_n
    Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:39pm

    Looks like so far Utah is not on the list for those leaving California. I knew I would find some kinda good news today… Ok I’m ready for the all the Mormon comments, lol!

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    • VRW Conspirator
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:30pm

      Lots of Mormon’s in CA…they might all be leaving back to UT soon…LOL…actually..we could use more in CA…they tend to be conservative and fiscally SANE!!…

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  • coyote1hell
    Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:39pm

    Cali has been the toilet of the U.S. for decades, that’s all

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 3:58pm

      Yes, because of Democrats and Liberal santuary Cities..Good Job !!

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  • servant100
    Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:37pm

    Common people…get it right…its the People’s Republic of California…presided over by Comrade Brown. Don’t forget that this whole proletariat peoples paradise will soon be coming to the conservative state nearest you….

    Realize that this is not a state….but a resident infection….

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  • piper60
    Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:35pm

    You notice, that only new yorkers, probably all from NYC, are going Into California.

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  • Polarized America
    Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:35pm

    .
    ,,interesting map, but they should have another arrow pointing to Asia for the job exodus —>

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  • OUT THE REGRESSIVES
    Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:34pm

    Colorado has been KALIFORNICATED.
    The Big Socialist Party is now in charge.

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    • AmericaMustBeFree
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:52pm

      Hopefully that will begin to change starting the next election! Democrats are bad news period!

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:43pm

      What’s disheartening about them is that the cops are on their side. Yep, those guys and gals in blue that are supposed to be for truth, honor and justice are in the fricking tank for communists. Doesn’t that just suck? They are the ones standing in between us and making this country a truly great place to live. They actually allow and protect those that cause the ruination of our homeland because of their union BS. Now THAT is a dichotomy.

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  • MDECKER
    Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:31pm

    “California was the melting pot of America’s melting pot” Now they’re just,”Pot”. California wanted to be sancuary for illegals and any other sub-human life forms on the planet. Now, they’re on their own. Other States should not allow entrance into their State, anyone wishing to flee California that carries the California virus. The State of California should be quarantined until an antibiotic can be invented. That particularly includes their Representatives.

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  • Coded-Dude
    Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:30pm

    Moved there in 2001, lived there until about a month ago(moved back to OK). There are a few conservatives that wont leave, and are trying to fight the good fight, but that state is a wash. A democratic super majority with a democratic governor. They will be the beacon of light for other progressive states passing any and every law they please. I feel sorry for conservatives living there as well as the ignorant who have no idea what kind of shape they are really in. CA = first state to go bankrupt – mark my words.

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    • Cavallo
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:38pm

      Before that happens they will require the other States and people to bail them out. Likely they will be bailed out without having to change a single moronic policy provision that raped and murdered the wealth of their state.

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    • Ruckus_Tom
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:04pm

      In the northern part of Cali locals treat Okies like they’ve come from the mother country – very friendly with tales of relatives they still have in Oklahoma.

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    • DPRHawaii
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:08pm

      Try being a conservative/libertarian minded Patriot living in Hawaii. Can’t beat the weather, but Chairman Abercrombe is the biggest liberal out there. We can’t even get a moderate Republican elected!

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  • SamIamTwo
    Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:25pm

    They are the ones buying homes.

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  • kat747
    Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:25pm

    What can you expect from a State that allows the Mexican flag to be placed above the American Flag ?

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  • STREBOR
    Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:24pm

    Sorry, Texas is closed until further notice. Please continue to Detroit or Chicago.. Mexico is now a land of opportunity and unicorns. have a pleasant trip!

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  • TSUNAMI_22
    Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:21pm

    ….and now that California has successfully been infiltrated and eviscerated, they will move to the remaining conservative states and destroy them from within…..a little bit at a time.

    Chip, chip, chip, chip, chip, chip……….

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    • lel2007
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:25pm

      Progressively?

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    • Cavallo
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:33pm

      They’re like locusts, or bacteria, or a virus. They destroy the host they live on, then move on to the next field or body to eat and destroy. Leftism is a fatal and contagious disease, responsible for more deaths than Cholera or HIV.

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    • mlgunner
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:52pm

      Excuse me, but you forget that most of the people moving out from CA are the ones who moved there from other states to begin with. At the most one or two generations removed. Its the other states exporting their “displaced persons” to California that have ruined it from the inside. My grandparents, for example, moved to Cali from Oklahoma during the Depression. They were old school Democrats, and my Grandpa was an retired auto worker, and belonged to the AFL-CIO which also came west with the auto industry, the aircraft industry and a whole bunch of Democrats from Texas.
      You just get back what you put into it, suckas …

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    • TSUNAMI_22
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 8:30pm

      @ mlgunner

      Your statement ties in directly to my point that I was trying to make.

      The come from states that they “F” up, and then move on to other states that aren’t like the ones they destroyed……….just to do it over again. Just like the family that moved to Wyoming recently. Wisely, the Wyoming representative told them if they didn’t like Wyoming policy to “hit the road”.

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  • Sargeking
    Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:20pm

    So people migrated from the most Liberal states and messed up California and now they have put the gears in reverse and are invading the few states remaining that aren’t already trashed?

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    • NoMoMrNiceGuy
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:43pm

      The State of Californification will probably not allow migration at a certain point. They will need them for Taxes.

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  • mikem1969
    Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:15pm

    And the morons in the communist government of commiefornia just don’t get it. Someone set off that device in the fault so cali will go ahead and drop off the face of the earth.

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    • TEARS FOR AMERICA
      Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:13am

      And the saddest part is that there a few good people left there who are trying to speak out in Truth but the drums of the occupier/commies drown them out! It will become a waste land in the dust bin of history. Come to think of it, much like the rest of the world where progressive ideas devour the individual’s right to freedom and government gobbles up the gift of life!

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  • carhouse
    Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:15pm

    Connecticut is next.
    Libs have ruined a great state. mass exodus because of malloy

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    • Outlaw_Josey_Wales
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:36pm

      Michigan, Happening now.

      • Michigan population was 9,938,823 (2000 censes) and 9,883,640 (2010 censes)
      • Between 2000 and 2010 the United States population grew by 9.7%
      • 9,938,823 times 9.7% = 10,902,888, this is an estimate of what Michigan’s population should
      have been in 2010.
      • 10,902,888 minus 9,883,640 = 1,019,248 estimated number of people who left Michigan since the
      2000 cense.

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    • wboehmer
      Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:19pm

      And it’s always the best & the brightest who leave first!

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