{"id":10716,"date":"2009-12-27T11:29:08","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T18:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=10716"},"modified":"2009-12-27T11:29:08","modified_gmt":"2009-12-27T18:29:08","slug":"whats-wrong-with-california-nothing-anyone-left-in-the-state-has-the-fortitude-to-fix-whats-the-golden-states-future-ask-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10716\/whats-wrong-with-california-nothing-anyone-left-in-the-state-has-the-fortitude-to-fix-whats-the-golden-states-future-ask-detroit\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s wrong with California? Nothing anyone left in the state has the fortitude to fix. What’s the Golden State’s future? Ask Detroit."},"content":{"rendered":"

From a lengthy diagnosis of everything that is wrong with California from The Claremont Institute:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Three of California’s last four governors, and six of its last nine, have been Republicans. The politicians who secured those victories immediately found it necessary to cooperate with a dominant opposition party; California is, in every other respect, a state that has been becoming more Democratic for as long as its oldest residents have been eligible to vote. California has not given its electoral votes to a Republican presidential candidate since 1988, or been represented in the U.S. Senate by a Republican since 1992. Of the 53 Californians in the U.S. House of Representatives, 34 are Democrats. In the past half-century, each of the two chambers of the state legislature has seen a Republican majority—once. The GOP’s state senate majority endured for two years, the one in the lower house for less than a single year.<\/p>\n

The evidence is incontestable: the liberal strategy of waiting for the public’s anger to subside is far sounder than the conservative strategy of hoping it will gather strength. The liberal calculation rests on a shrewd assessment, not only of human psychology but also of modern mobility. California is not yet East Germany, which means that one of the ways Californians who are mad as hell can decide not to take it any more is by moving away. The Census Bureau shows that California, the state that used to be a magnet, has experienced negative "net domestic migration" since 1990. Between 1990 and 2007 some 3.4 million more Americans moved from<\/em> California to one of the other 49 states than moved to<\/em> California from another state.<\/p>\n

States don’t conduct exit interviews, so there’s no way to tell how many ex-Californians left paradise because the taxes were too high, the public services too shoddy, and the unions too overbearing. Whatever the tally, one problem for conservatism in California is that the conservative critique of the state’s governance argues as strongly for flight as it does for fight. It is possible to advocate a national policy agenda by invoking patriotism, but "state-riotism" is a far weaker Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From a lengthy diagnosis of everything that is wrong with California from The Claremont Institute: Three of California’s last four governors, and six of its last nine, have been Republicans. The politicians who secured those victories immediately found it necessary to cooperate with a dominant opposition party; California is, in every other respect, a state […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-big-mother","7":"category-group-therapy","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14143,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14143\/greece-is-the-word-is-the-word-is-the-word\/","url_meta":{"origin":10716,"position":0},"title":"“Greece is the word, is the word, is the word…”","author":"Sean Purcell","date":"February 18, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Some of us, here on BHB and elsewhere, have been arguing that a collapse is coming.\u00a0 A financial collapse due to the almost incomprehensibly\u00a0fraudulent practices of the local, state and federal governments.\u00a0 A fraud so immense that most of us can't even begin to wrap our minds around it.\u00a0 In\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Big Mother"","block_context":{"text":"Big Mother","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/big-mother\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":16947,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/16947\/overnight-news-if-your-houses-arent-evaporating-your-taxpayers-are\/","url_meta":{"origin":10716,"position":1},"title":"Overnight News: If your houses aren\u2019t evaporating, your taxpayers are.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 10, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Hoover Institution: California Businesses Leave The State By The Thousands. 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