Saturday, April 02, 2011
MICHAEL BARONE on the census:
What's been happening is that people from the Northeast and the Midwest have been flocking to the South Atlantic states, not to retirement communities but to Tampa and Jacksonville, Atlanta and Charlotte and Raleigh, which are among the nation's fastest-growing metro areas. The South Atlantic has been attracting smaller numbers of immigrants as well. Coastal California, in contrast, has had a vast inflow of immigrants and a similarly vast outflow of Americans. High housing costs, exacerbated by no-growth policies and environmental restrictions, have made modest homes unaffordable to middle-class families who don't want to live in Spanish-speaking neighborhoods or commute 50 miles to work.Progressive policy prescriptions are not looking good. Americans are voting with their feet, and some - including me - are thinking of moving farther.
RADIATION-FEARING Southern California hippies buy out sea kelp supplies. "Hippies have raided health stores in Southern California, buying out local health food stores' entire supplies of sea kelp, an aquatic vegetable whose iodine-rich properties help stave off the effects of radiation. Should the nuclear plume emanating from Japan's shores actually cross the Pacific to invade Los Angeles, these health foodies will be well prepared."
TALK LOUDLY, but carry a bunch of waivers. Laws are for thee, but not for me. Linked from Instapundit.
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