In his famous 20th-century novel The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway’s character Mike Campbell is asked by a friend how his financial ruin occurred. Campbell answered the question simply: “There are two ways. Gradually, and then suddenly.”

With just a cursory look at today’s headlines, one can see this “gradually and then suddenly” thinking playing out in the fiscal health of many blue states. California is a good example of a state on the road to financial ruin. Expected to lose four congressional seats due to population loss in the 2030 census.

Additionally, large companies like Wells Fargo and Quantum, among others that are sure to follow suit, are moving their headquarters out of the Golden State Fly to Florida. In fact, Miami was recently dubbed the “New Silicon Valley” by one national media outlet.

The country’s other two largest immigrant-draining states? illinois and New York. Billionaire Ken Griffin, who runs the Citadel Hedge Fund, the largest and most successful hedge fund in the United States, will leave Chicago in 2022 and move his headquarters to Florida. Meanwhile, Illinois and New York are expected to lose between 2 and 4 congressional seats by 2030 due to population decline.

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Blue state residents are fleeing places like California for red states. (Fox News)

So, what’s going on? In short, individuals and companies have endured blue state taxes, insane spending, stifling regulations, and draconian environmental policies that stifle innovation and entrepreneurship. They are moving to red states like Florida and Texas Value capital, markets, free exchange and opportunity. By the way, Florida and Texas are projected to gain four congressional seats in 2030.

Using any metric — GDP growth, job creation, capital investment, employment rates or what’s known as the U-Haul Immigration and Inward Index — red states are in the top 10, with some occasional immigration. arizona purple state Or Nevada gets in on the act.

Meanwhile, the aforementioned California, Illinois, New York, and many other blue states rank near the bottom. Americans are fed up with a bloated government and a nanny state that wants to control individuals’ money and every aspect of their lives. And those Americans are voting with their feet.

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The left likes to say that warm weather and beaches are why citizens move to red states, but this obscures the truth. Last time I checked, Utah, Idaho, and Montana had neither warm weather nor beaches, but these states typically rank in the top ten of these indices.

What does all this tell us? Well, we’ve been seeing this happen for a while now. California has not won a congressional seat since 2000. What about Illinois and New York? last century. Since then, blue states’ economies have weakened and their populations have slowly declined, but politicians in those states refuse to admit why.

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Reality is now setting in, with the loss of electoral votes and the loss of political influence in Washington, D.C., not to mention financial collapse.

Mike Campbell may not know much about electoral politics, but he sure does A thing or two about bankruptcyhe admitted that the incident occurred “gradually and then suddenly”, which is a warning to the United States. Blue states should take note.