The Red State Brain Drain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now — As conservative states wage total culture war, college-educated workers, physicians, teachers, professors, and more are packing their bags.
by temporarycreature
The Red State Brain Drain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now — As conservative states wage total culture war, college-educated workers, physicians, teachers, professors, and more are packing their bags.
by temporarycreature
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This was the plan all along for the right wing. If you don’t like reality than get rid of everyone who might mention it.
Articles like these aren’t alarming to the leaders of those states, they’re proof of concept.
It’s literally been happening for 100 years
All the economic output in this country is in blue states. All the cultural relevance is in blue states. Anyone who grows up in buttfuck Oklahoma that has a modicum of talent leaves. They go to large cities in blue states and they never go home.
The idiots stay behind. And they have children with other idiots. And if by some miracle a non-idiot is born, they’ll leave just like others before them.
The result- Blue states keep getting more talent, but also keep getting more expensive as housing demand continues to outpace supply. Red states just become shittier places that rely on federal grants and need their local politicians to scapegoat LGBTQ people and minorities to make their constituents feel better about their increasingly shitty existence
Can confirm. I moved from a blue state to a red state for work. It’s the worst decision my family and I have made. Different culture (or lack thereof), different economy (higher rates of poverty and mediocre schools), different politics, different people (mostly with tunnel vision and a real lack of awareness of how the modern world works). Cannot wait to move.
Texas can’t afford to get any dumber …
Lol, my boss told me if Texas seceded they would still be a well functioning entity. The lack of education in these states is already poor, when all the educated folks leave, they will be dumpster fires.
Well no shit.
Also this is not a loss in the eyes of republican politicians, the less educated their base is the more they can lie and manipulate.
Ive started to feel pity for people who believe what republican politicians and news media are telling them. Why can’t they simply fact check shit for themselves. Yesterday someone argued to me that democrats are just as hateful as republicans and to back up their argument they claimed Arnold Schwarzenegger was quoted as to saying how he wanted to kill more people. I googled it and in fact he did say it… in a line in the movie Terminator 2 as an actor playing a role, but because someone made the claim on twitter others are using it as a fact to support their arguments and I was able to debunk it in 10 seconds with a single google search… this is just sad
Interesting that he counted Georgia as a blue state to help his case. The two most economically vibrant southern states are Georgia and Texas and they don’t fit the authors’ narrative.
As Jerry once gently said to Mort, “Duh-doy, son.”
Come to the swing states! Together we can make them firmly blue
Professors who come from outside of the US are using Red state Universities as a stepping stone to get tenure and then leave as soon as possible to either blue states or universities outside of the country.
I met a mother of 3 who moved from a red state to our rural purple town in a blue state. She reported being shocked and saddened about how far behind her kids were in school.
A lot of people don’t realize those moving from CA to say, TX, are doing so as ***Conservatives*** so it doesn’t help Dems in TX for instance in the reverse direction.
Education is way too fucking woke for republicans. Go woke go broke right? Keep yourselves stupid so you don’t get it. Good job!
> Meanwhile, with the sole exception of Texas, red states are bleeding college graduates. It’s happening even in relatively prosperous Florida. And much as Republicans may scorn Joe (and Jane) College, they need them to deliver their babies, to teach their children, to pay taxes—college grads pay more than twice as much in taxes—and to provide a host of other services that only people with undergraduate or graduate degrees are able to provide.
Do they though? They’ll just blame the left, lower standards by these typically well-educated professions, blame the left some more, and continue voting for Tate Reeves and Kay Ivey and Sarah Sanders as Fox and similar propaganda outlets giddily feed them outrage.
Mississippi might be an economic wasteland, but it will always have 2 Senators per the Constitution and those Senators will ensure that Mississippi gets its piece of the pie from the Federal coffers (largely, of course, funded by the [71% of America’s GDP](https://www.newsweek.com/trump-counties-make-just-29-percent-us-economic-output-2020-election-study-shows-1546951) that voted for Biden).
We’re handcuffed to the consequences of their dreadful policies.