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Houston Chronicle by  Jeremy Wallace Jan. 22, 2020

Host Stuart Varney also asked Abbott about the changing politics of Texas and if people moving to the state are beginning to turn the state blue.

“First, my job every single day is to wake up and make sure that does not happen,” Abbott said. “They need to remember exactly why they’re fleeing California; why they’re fleeing Illinois; Why they’re fleeing New Jersey and New York and these other states. Do not bring with you the thing that’s causing you to flee those states. Come to the land of freedom. Texas is the last bastion of opportunity. Don’t blow it when you come here.”

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Gov. Greg Abbott issues warning to people moving to Texas from places like Calif and NY: "Do not bring with you the thing that’s causing you to flee those states. Come to the land of freedom...Don’t blow it when you come here"  |  https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/6125601383001/ …

Abbott is on an 11-day economic development mission that started in Israel on Jan. 14. In Davos, he participated in the World Economic Forum, where he talked up the state’s booming economy and was trying to strike deals to get more businesses to move to Texas.

Abbott had no shortage of praise for Trump during an interview on FOX Business from Davos, where he said Trump delivered one of his best speeches ever. He said Trump was able to explain American exceptionalism and did not apologize for the nation’s strong economy.

More: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/texas/article/Texas-Gov-Abbott-to-Californians-Don-t-14996580.php

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He is correct.   Will they listen.... doubtful.
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Speaking as a Californian whose future may include moving to another state, how F-ing stupid does he think I am?! I know a good number of former Californians who have left the state, ALL the sort of Californian of whom Governor Abbott seems ignorant. Californians are not any more homogeneous than are Texans.
If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

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Speaking as a Californian whose future may include moving to another state, how F-ing stupid does he think I am?! I know a good number of former Californians who have left the state, ALL the sort of Californian of whom Governor Abbott seems ignorant. Californians are not any more homogeneous than are Texans.

I know many people who have relocated to Texas from various $hithole states and enjoy the benefits of living here. But they are rabidly leftist Trump haters. I'm sure there are exceptions, but I haven't met one.
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I know many people who have relocated to Texas from various $hithole states and enjoy the benefits of living here. But they are rabidly leftist Trump haters. I'm sure there are exceptions, but I haven't met one.

Adding your experience to mine, it demonstrates that the citizens of states like California or other bogey-states are not homogeneous. As somebody said before.

If it isn't grossly obvious, I'm very tired of "conservatives" treating all Californians as pervs and whackos. These same "conservatives" mock treating blacks, Hispanics, Name of Large Demographic Group Here as lock-step homogeneous groups, yet do the same damn stupid thing themselves when talking about their own bogey-groups. So I push back.
If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.