Red staters should want blue staters to move in. They’d improve economies, generate tax revenue, and diversify the culture—without running roughshod over what’s already there.
practiced in blue states. Another idea she’s offered is a ban on blue staters from being allowed to vote for five years after moving to a red state. Ridiculous, unworkable, unconstitutional stuff, for sure. But also familiar territory.
“In general, blue-state people are better educated. better equipped for the information age, and better at generating more jobs that raise the tax base and raise the boat for everyone,” says Don Kettl, author ofand former dean in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. “But they inevitably increase the tension around red states’ cultural policies.
On the blue side of the ledger, New Jersey received 74 cents in federal spending for every tax dollar sent to Washington, New York got 81 cents, Connecticut 82 cents, and Massachusetts 83 cents. Sometimes, you’d end up with something like Greene’s home state of Georgia—which voted for Joe Biden and has two Democratic senators, but which is still very purple overall. What part of Georgia would secede into red country? What would Greene like to do with Atlanta in a national divorce? Are red and blue states even real things?
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