[glompers]

This civic control correlation can simply have more to do with the most-white-supremacist Democrats switching to the GOP en masse and also simultaneously leaving multiethnic cities and school districts en masse after the 1960s. That self-selection left Republicans not a competitive amount of credibility or voter pool behind to work with. Your implication that policy dysfunction has ensued on that account rather than because of fiscal drain -- that's a separate topic. Individual states and individual cities have too many fiscal policy similarities and differences, overlapping, to responsibly compare in any online discussion.

[rayiner]

> That self-selection left Republicans not a competitive amount of credibility or voter pool behind to work with.

So by your logic New York is a better governed state than Florida? Net internal migration would seem to disagree.

[jacobolus]

> New York is a better governed state than Florida

Yes, New York is significantly more successful than Florida in almost every way: Better education, better healthcare, longer life expectancy, less pollution, lower crime, more productivity, higher wages, more amenities, better transportation infrastructure, less poverty, happier residents, and so on.

[const_cast]

> So by your logic New York is a better governed state than Florida? Net internal migration would seem to disagree.

Yes, and it's not even close. Choose just about any metric and NY is running laps around Florida.

And, not just Florida, but red states in general. If you look at the metrics, they typically are some of the poorest states with the worst outcomes. Bad infrastructure, bad education, not a lot of job opportunities, horribly impoverished, under-developed.

It's just that nobody cares. Nobody expects Louisiana or Florida to be decent places to live. But since California is the economic powerhouse of the US, people do expect it to be decent. That's the issue, the blue states are essentially carrying the economy of everything else on their back, so they now get a new, unfair set of standards.

There's some exceptions here, mainly Texas.

[_heimdall]

Is it your opinion that the only factor relevant for those deciding what state to move to is quality of government?

I'm surprised that things like the job market wouldn't come into play, for example.

[PaulDavisThe1st]

... because nobody moves to Florida for (what they perceive of) the weather, right? Especially not retirees tired of the idea of one more winter in NY.