The Polling Center: California's Conservative Migration
Gov. Rick Perry’s very public, but mostly humorous, skirmish with California Gov. Jerry Brown started with the Texan’s overtures to California entrepreneurs sick of living in a sunshine state where it is apparently “next to impossible” to build a business. While it’s tempting to assume that Californians relocating to Texas are moving to the state’s big metropolises and bringing their liberal, “California” attitudes (I’m sure many of you think that I’m being redundant), data collected in the University of Texas/Texas Tribune polls tell a different story.
With its economic troubles, California has been ...
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Adolfo Soliz via Texas Tribune on Facebook
How many people were surveyed?
Linda Hunter via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Well, crap.
Matthew Cowan via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Interesting!
Karen Spivey-Cummings via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Economy? Yep if you are wealthy.
Karen Spivey-Cummings via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The way they ask the questions make a big difference in a poll. Conservative fiscally but liberal socially.
Matthew Cowan via Texas Tribune on Facebook
IT is a good economy in texas period. Jobs are available for all socio-economic levels and not just the wealthy.
EyesOfTX
Given that most liberals refuse to admit they are in fact a liberal, it is quite safe to assume that the 27% number in that poll is substantially lower than reality, and that the 57% number is substantially higher than reality. Also, what constitutes a "conservative" in CA is substantially different than what constitutes same in TX, and this poll in no way takes that reality into account.
What states like Colorado and Montana have found out about Californians is that, while they claim to be leaving their home state because of the idiotic government and business climate there, they by and large make every effort to replicate that idiotic legal and regulatory framework in whatever state they happen to land in. It's as if they just can't help themselves.
So the heavy influx of Californians to Texas is not good news at all, and it's probable that we're building a fence along the wrong border.
Jim Vance
In other words, we're gonna be in for a lot more neofascist political gimmickry and blather with the recruitment and arrival of Golden State Retreads (or is that Retards?)....
Matt Taylor
This article has bee linked on thejavelina.com
Philip Diehl
This assessment is meaningless without knowing something about how these Californians define "conservative" on specific issues and how their opinions fit in the spectrum of political opinion in Texas. I bet a California conservative is far less conservative on social issues than a Texas conservatives is. Having lived in Texas for 40 years, I considered myself a liberal until I moved to DC where I discovered I mas a moderate.