So much to unpack here...
People move for lots of reasons. Tons. Sometimes they move to a state they like less politically for reasons that are not political
at all. For example, I moved to California, a state which I did not like politically, from Texas, mostly based on work. And the work was not there because of the way people were voting in CA compared to TX either.
Yet I did move there. And I did not adopt the prevailing political culture there. So should I have? According to
@Chrunch Houston I suppose I should have.
Second, this is a bit of a confirmation bias test.
You might think that it's obvious what "screwed up" some state for someone, but that's because you have your own preconceived notions about what "screwed up" looks like, and why people are moving, and what policies
caused the thing that you think is "screwed up".
For example, suppose one of the things that "screwed up" California is tax rates. But someone moving from California is leaving because of how expensive real estate is. They move to, let's say Texas, and start voting for higher taxes. You think "that's what screwed up your state, don't vote for that here, you had to flee your state". But of course they fled their state because of real-estate prices, not taxes. And let's further suppose that the real reason California is "screwed up" is because it's super popular because of the weather. And neither taxes nor anything to do with government treatment of real-estate are the actual "problem".
You're doing a ton of projecting of your own opinion in this circumstance. As a result, people behave in a way that you can't seemingly explain. If people are voting in a particular way, and they get what they want, and it turns out that it's obvious to everyone that it's causing tons of problems, and leaving. Why would they vote the same way again? You might handwave some sort of dehumanizing trait here, but you don't have a solid explanation for it. The reality is that something in that chain is broken. Either it's
not obvious that it's causing the problem, or it's not actually a problem, or they're not leaving because of that problem, or they're not voting in the same way (but you think they are).
In short, moving to Texas from California does not mean voting for Trump. That's a false dichotomy, black and white fallacy if ever I heard one. Similarly, when I moved from Texas to California, it did not mean that I should start voting for democrats.
