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we might be outnumbered.
At least we aren't outgunned.
Failure to process if this then that logic, even if not using causes but instead correlations and probabilities.
Millions upon Millions of people are growing up in a societal bubble, not learning history or the political ideas that have shaped the world from the Magna Carta on up to today. Have you seen the street interviews in CA asking people who the first president was? Epic fail, one after the other. People don't know even that, let alone names like John Locke, Adam Smith, Kant, or (probably) even Plato.
But, I bet you they know Jacques Derrida. And if someone is so entrenched in these philosophies, then they would see that California's problems are the results of some oppressive figment in the aether - something that their philosophies fight against. They'd simply see Idaho as even worse than California, from that perspective...never able to grasp that it is they who are, in fact, the terror of their own lands.
I wonder...would it be an infringement on rights or liberty to force a waiting period for state and local elections? Something like all new residents to the state may not register to vote or vote in any state or local election for a period of 5 years...?
There's a lot of internal migration, especially strong in the west. And it's been going on for donkey's years.
And, it isn't just from state to state. It goes on intra-state. It's often more a conflict of urban/suburban versus rural. Here in Wash., Boeing Company retirees move out to places like the Methow Valley. Upsetting the locals. Same story as we're discussing in Idaho. They bring their money into a lower cost market, price out the locals and next thing you know, it's no longer a lower cost market. Money it must be pointed out that they worked all their lives to save; you can't really fault them for having originally worked and lived in a place that had better opportunities and paid higher wages.
Then there is the domino effect. Monroe, Wash. used to be a small town. As crowding and higher prices drove people out of King Co., some landed in Monroe. All kinds of development resulted, prices went up, the whole bit. Many long-time local residents moved out, especially the lower income types. Guess to where? Idaho and Montana. One guy I know inherited a home in Monroe that happened to be on a large lot; he sold it, cashed out his big bucks and moved -- to La Pine, Ore.
Both of my parents were originally from Iowa. Small towns. Back there, if you weren't born there, you're considered an outsider. You can live there for 30 years, you will always be thought of as an outsider. Locals may be polite, some may even like you, but in their mind you're still an outsider. But I can say from this same experience, lots of people have left places like small towns in Iowa over the past 50 years as the economy has moved more from rural to urban/suburban. People who don't inherit land to farm, well, they either move to town or become a low income hired hand. People who wanted something better for themselves moved. Not everyone can face that kind of change, leaving their original home, family, friends, contacts., etc. So those who stay behind sometimes give a pass to better opportunities. And become the local low income people.
It's funny, if a non-native moves into the city in California, nobody thinks a thing about it. You just get lost in the vast sea of people. There, many city dwellers don't even know their neighbors.