The simpler lives and fewer choices offered by “trailing edge” cities like Salt Lake City are more compelling than “cutting edge” cities like San Francisco.
I want to report a trend. Americans are becoming more conservative and less interested in progress for progress’ sake.
Young Americans can no longer shock with alternative lifestyle choices but if they move to Utah, get married right out of college, and start a family, they’re sure to destroy their parents who were either heathens from the 70s or yuppies from the 80s.
My students, who are now getting married, are staying in their hometowns. They’re getting married and staying faithful. They’re joining the church and participating in their communities. Many of them are effectively “straight edge,” refusing any drugs or alcohol.
These kids are principled and ache for a less chaotic, simpler, world, in response to a way-too complex, unstable, untrustworthy world that was orchestrated by their parents and family.
Someplace that values honor, family, Faith, trust, community, education, principles, marriage, responsibility, discipline, and loyalty.
Not doing things even when you can is where more and more people want to be, who they want to be.
And so I have been seeing a cultural rush to cities like Salt lake City.
Mark my words.
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Brilliant demographic trend.
Good riddance, I say.
If we resettle such types out in the Midwest and get them out of the hip coastal cities, perhaps we’ll have less resistance to the progressive local laws we’d like to pass.
An added benefit will be the shifting of that population out to the presently low-population red states that are massively over-represented by their 2 votes in the Senate. Better to concentrate such voices under those states’ Senators so that coastal Senators will be free to be firebrand Libs.
Lastly, getting such types off the coasts would help ensure that the seats of the House of Representatives in our states go Democrat, rather than going red through gerrymandering.
I fully support this trend and would be 100% behind measures like generous tax incentives for Republicans moving from the coastal cities out to the Midwest, perhaps even direct subsidies!
Yeah! Legalized marijuana, gay marriages, high car taxes, bike lanes, and PATRIOT Act-blocking state and local laws for the hip coastal regions!
Radical regionalism! Let’s create politically homogenous places where people feel comfortable and separate them by vast distances! Texas even has beaches so red-staters wouldn’t have to get affronted on their vacations by stoned, evolution theory-promoting, same-sex couples on bicycles kissing each other while listening to NPR.
We could put all the new nuclear power plants and atomic waste dumps out where people are in support of such stuff, and build vast, droning windmill farms with huge state subsidies where people think the things have some sort of politically-correct beauty to them. We could have Creationism sweep the schools from the Mississippi to the Rockies and save those tax-averse populations huge amounts on their property taxes by canceling the expensive science curricula and replacing them with much cheaper School Prayer periods. On the coasts, we could eliminate costly football programs and replace them with co-ed soccer, debate teams, and yoga clubs, while still saving plenty of money for community donations to Greenpeace.
So, a modest proposal: all moving costs for Republicans moving westward across the Mississippi or Eastward across the Rockies into the Midwest to be 100% tax-deductible at a federal level – and the capital gains they will realize selling their expensive coastal houses and buying something in the Midwest as well. Liberal refugees from the Midwest to the coasts would receive a package kind of like the East Germans who fled to West Germany did back during the cold war: a few hundred bucks, a temporary home, and a job in a government office (or perhaps a non-profit…)
What do you say; shall we create a bi-partisan PAC to Make America Happier Place?
Mark (my words)