How did an entire state price itself out for entry-level home buyers?

Post by clock_tower » Tue, Oct 25, 2016, 9:08 PM UTC

hilop wrote: post #156

OvidNaso wrote: post #131

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Then how is it our species has colonized most of the planet. Surely their is an intense, universal, drive to migrate.

The people are migrate are the members of the lower class who are exiled by law or economics or racism.

Or lower-middle-class, or otherwise downwardly mobile, and looking to move up; or ideologically motivated.

Read Albion's Seed -- the Borderers/Scotch-Irish were poor and exiled, following the model you describe, but the Cavaliers were both downwardly-mobile and eager to create ideological utopias, and the Puritans and Quakers were just looking for places to build utopia -- they were doing well enough economically back in England.

Post by clock_tower » Tue, Oct 25, 2016, 11:41 PM UTC

rconti wrote: post #71

zeveb wrote: post #52

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The politics of Colorado, Florida, Oregon, Virginia & Washington have all noticeably undergone this effect over the past forty years. Heck, that effect was the entire reason for Bloody Kansas, with pro- and anti-slavery people moving into the territory in order to influence its politics. It's why the Free State Project exists. It's why some politicians want to decrease immigration, and others want to increase it. I'm…

1. Politics have changed, people have moved. You fail to draw a causal link. I'm not disputing that people don't take their attitudes with them as they move, but your post implies that people flee politics they don't like, but then vote for the same politics in their destination. Politics would have changed with or without migration. Political views and cultural attitudes are not static. etc. 2. You're right that pol…

That first item has a causal link in Virginia; the "People's Republic of Northern Virginia" is made possible by DC people fleeing Maryland, then staying liberal, once again voting for the policies that made them flee. The locals are still what they always were -- for what that's worth.

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