{"id":1067941,"date":"2021-11-30T10:14:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T15:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1067941"},"modified":"2021-11-30T10:14:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T15:14:49","slug":"trying-to-turn-texas-blue-nyt-opinion-piece-sells-leftists-on-texas-as-best-place-to-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trying-to-turn-texas-blue-nyt-opinion-piece-sells-leftists-on-texas-as-best-place-to-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying To Turn Texas Blue: NYT Opinion Piece Sells Leftists On Texas As Best Place To Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrying-to-turn-texas-blue-nyt-opinion-piece-sells-leftists-on-texas-as-best-place-to-live%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1067941&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>With Florida rapidly turning from an evenly-divided state to one that is increasingly a red state, The New York Times turned to that great bastion of conservatism, Texas, and determined to turn Texas blue, published an opinion piece encouraging blue staters, especially Californians, to move there.<\/p>\n<p>In the piece, titled, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/23\/opinion\/move-to-texas.html\">Everyone\u2019s Moving To Texas. Here\u2019s Why<\/a>,\u201d Farhad Manjoo with Gus Wezerek and Yaryna Serkez&nbsp; began by claiming, \u201c[We] gathered data for thousands of towns and cities on more than 30 metrics, such as school quality, crime rates and affordability. Then we used that data to make a quiz: Select the criteria you find important, and we\u2019ll show you places that might work for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started with a list of 16,847 places that have a population of more than 1,000 people,\u201d he started. \u201cFirst, I narrowed my search to places with low unemployment and high median incomes \u2014 because nobody wants to move to a place where all the businesses are closing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNext, I went looking for places that seemed more likely to be spared the worst of climate change\u2019s ravages \u2014 in contrast to my current home state, California, \u201che continued, \u201cLike a lot of Americans, I also want to live in a place that\u2019s racially diverse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinally, I filtered out places with high housing prices. I\u2019m fed up with my state\u2019s impossible cost of living,\u201d he added, \u201cOnce I had put in all my priorities, I was left with a list of cities and towns near Dallas that checked all my boxes. I was starting to see why so many people are moving to Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re looking for an affordable, economically vibrant city that is less likely to be damaged by climate change than many other American cities, our data shows why Texas is a new land of plenty,\u201d&nbsp; he continued. \u201cFor the many hypothetical life scenarios I ran through our quiz, the suburbs around Dallas \u2014 places like Plano, McKinney, Garland, Euless and Allen \u2014 came up a lot. It\u2019s clear why these are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/local\/dfw-fastest-growing-metro-in-us-fort-worth-moves-up-13th-largest-city\/248895\/\">some of the fastest-growing areas in the country<\/a>. They have relatively little crime and are teeming with jobs, housing, highly rated schools, good restaurants, clean air and racial and political diversity \u2014 all at a steep discount compared to the cost of living in America\u2019s coastal metropolises.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More: \u201cFrom 2010 to 2020,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/library\/stories\/2021\/08\/more-than-half-of-united-states-counties-were-smaller-in-2020-than-in-2010.html\">the population of Texas grew by nearly four million<\/a>; about 29 million people live there now. In the same period, California, which has nearly 40 million people, added just over two million. \u2026&nbsp;People from every state move to Texas, but California contributes an outsize number of new Texans. In 2019, Californians accounted&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/demographics.texas.gov\/Resources\/Presentations\/OSD\/2021\/2021_01_29_MexicanAmericanLegislativeLeadershipFellowship.pdf\">for about 42 percent<\/a>&nbsp;of Texas\u2019 net domestic in-migration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The heat in Texas? Not to worry; Manjoo posited: \u201cYes, Texas is very hot and likely to get hotter; but if a lot of other American cities also begin to get very hot, Texas cities might not feel as overheated by comparison. In addition to the risk of heat stress, Texas also faces the possibility of water shortages, but that will be true across much of the West, including California\u2019s population centers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Selling Californians on continuing to turn Texas blue, Manjoo continued, \u201cWhat Texans will not have to worry about as much are wildfires, the scourge of so much of California, and the attendant air pollution, though&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/environment\/2018\/11\/28\/climate-change-to-bring-north-texas-longer-droughts-heavy-rains-120-degree-temps-within-25-years\/\">experts predict<\/a>&nbsp;increases in wildfires in Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Californian will feel right at home in Dallas even before touching the ground,\u201d he enthused. \u201cLike the suburbs around Los Angeles, San Diego and across the Bay Area, Dallas and other Texas metros are built on the certainty of cars and infinite sprawl; from the air, as I landed, I could see the familiar landscape of endless blocks of strip malls and single-family houses, all connected by a circulatory system of freeways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He comforted Californians who might worry about the red-state politics of Texas: \u201c[Rapid] growth is rapidly altering Texas\u2019 politics. As people pour in, Texas keeps getting more diverse, younger and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2020\/11\/texas-turning-blue\/616978\/\">more liberal<\/a>. \u2026 On an electoral map, Texas looks inhospitable to anyone on the left. But its biggest cities and suburbs largely voted blue in 2020, and as a practical matter they may feel no less welcoming to people on the left than some of the most liberal of coastal metropolises.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manjoo concluded, \u201cTexas, now, feels a bit like California did when I first moved here in the late 1980s \u2014 a thriving, dynamic place where it doesn\u2019t take a lot to establish a good life. For many people, that\u2019s more than enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Florida rapidly turning from an evenly-divided state to one that is increasingly a red state, The New York Times turned to that great bastion of conservatism, Texas, and determined to turn Texas blue, published an opinion piece encouraging blue staters, especially Californians, to move there.In the piece, titled, \u201cEveryone\u2019s Moving To Texas. Here\u2019s Why,\u201d Farhad Manjoo with Gus Wezerek and Yaryna Serkez\u00a0 began by claiming, \u201c[We] gathered data for thousands of towns and cities on more than 30 metrics, such as school quality, crime rates and affordability. Then we used that data to make a quiz: Select the criteria you find important, and we\u2019ll show you places that might work for you.\u201d\u201cI started with a list of 16,847 places that have a population of more than 1,000 people,\u201d he started. \u201cFirst, I narrowed my search to places with low unemployment and high median incomes \u2014 because nobody wants to move to a place where all the businesses are closing.\u201d\u201cNext, I went looking for places that seemed more likely to be spared the worst of climate change\u2019s ravages \u2014 in contrast to my current home state, California, \u201che continued, \u201cLike a lot of Americans, I also want to live in a place that\u2019s racially diverse.\u201d\u201cFinally, I filtered out places with high housing prices. I\u2019m fed up with my state\u2019s impossible cost of living,\u201d he added, \u201cOnce I had put in all my priorities, I was left with a list of cities and towns near Dallas that checked all my boxes. I was starting to see why so many people are moving to Texas.\u201d\u201cIf you\u2019re looking for an affordable, economically vibrant city that is less likely to be damaged by climate change than many other American cities, our data shows why Texas is a new land of plenty,\u201d\u00a0 he continued. \u201cFor the many hypothetical life scenarios I ran through our quiz, the suburbs around Dallas \u2014 places like Plano, McKinney, Garland, Euless and Allen \u2014 came up a lot. It\u2019s clear why these are\u00a0some of the fastest-growing areas in the country. They have relatively little crime and are teeming with jobs, housing, highly rated schools, good restaurants, clean air and racial and political diversity \u2014 all at a steep discount compared to the cost of living in America\u2019s coastal metropolises.\u201dMore: \u201cFrom 2010 to 2020,\u00a0the population of Texas grew by nearly four million; about 29 million people live there now. In the same period, California, which has nearly 40 million people, added just over two million. \u2026\u00a0People from every state move to Texas, but California contributes an outsize number of new Texans. In 2019, Californians accounted\u00a0for about 42 percent\u00a0of Texas\u2019 net domestic in-migration.\u201dThe heat in Texas? Not to worry; Manjoo posited: \u201cYes, Texas is very hot and likely to get hotter; but if a lot of other American cities also begin to get very hot, Texas cities might not feel as overheated by comparison. In addition to the risk of heat stress, Texas also faces the possibility of water shortages, but that will be true across much of the West, including California\u2019s population centers.\u201dSelling Californians on continuing to turn Texas blue, Manjoo continued, \u201cWhat Texans will not have to worry about as much are wildfires, the scourge of so much of California, and the attendant air pollution, though\u00a0experts predict\u00a0increases in wildfires in Texas.\u201d\u201cA Californian will feel right at home in Dallas even before touching the ground,\u201d he enthused. \u201cLike the suburbs around Los Angeles, San Diego and across the Bay Area, Dallas and other Texas metros are built on the certainty of cars and infinite sprawl; from the air, as I landed, I could see the familiar landscape of endless blocks of strip malls and single-family houses, all connected by a circulatory system of freeways.\u201dHe comforted Californians who might worry about the red-state politics of Texas: \u201c[Rapid] growth is rapidly altering Texas\u2019 politics. As people pour in, Texas keeps getting more diverse, younger and\u00a0more liberal. \u2026 On an electoral map, Texas looks inhospitable to anyone on the left. But its biggest cities and suburbs largely voted blue in 2020, and as a practical matter they may feel no less welcoming to people on the left than some of the most liberal of coastal metropolises.\u201dManjoo concluded, \u201cTexas, now, feels a bit like California did when I first moved here in the late 1980s \u2014 a thriving, dynamic place where it doesn\u2019t take a lot to establish a good life. For many people, that\u2019s more than enough.\u201dThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a member.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1067941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}