This column was originally published in the, almost, world famous Buffalo Gap Round-Up News, January 2024 issue.
The California Policy Center keeps what it calls its “California Book of Exoduses” and it says that, at minimum, 237 businesses have left California since 2005 because of the once Golden State’s Leftist tax and regulatory climate.
Where did those companies go?
According to a report from The Center Square, more than half picked up on the 19th Century craze abbreviated as “GTT” which stands for Gone to Texas!
In 2023, alone a third of the companies that left California moved to Texas including three substantial firms that moved their corporate headquarters to rapidly growing Frisco north of Dallas.
Texas success in luring workers to the Lone Star State is phenomenal.
The list of firms moving their principal offices to Texas over the last decades is so impressive that Texas now boasts more big company HQ’s than New York City and that trend is not expected to end anytime soon.
The run of the Texas Miracle, as it has been called for twenty years, most certainly can end if Texas Republican lawmakers, other officials, and voters allow themselves to be hoodwinked into believing that conservative social policy should be dialed back because such is “bad for business.”
Conservative social policy, running the gamut from pro-life, anti-abortion laws and strong anti-drug and anti-gambling laws, to decidedly pro traditional family policies opposed by the homosexual lobby, go hand-in-hand with the success Texas has seen in luring companies with a generally lower tax and regulatory burden.
Texas success in luring workers to the Lone Star State is phenomenal.
The Census Bureau says that in 2023, 473,543 people moved to Texas which is about 1,300 per day. This “was also the trend in 2022, including residents fleeing Blue states. A large number, more than 102,000 Californians and 30,000 New Yorkers, moved to Texas last year, according to Census data,” The Center Square reported.
It’s all the rage among non-conservative Republicans, fed mostly by the propaganda from anti-Republican interests that dominate the popular media and cultural apparatus, to believe that conservative social policies scare business and talent away and thus should be pursued with great caution.
Texas is full of liberals and liberalism. But Texas is also generally understood to be tremendously more conservative both politically and culturally than the states from which people are coming – an often ignored fact that concretely argues against this insidious idea that promoting conservative business and conservative social policy puts the state at a disadvantage.
Sure there are company leaders and workers who loudly oppose Texas not embracing leftist cultural policies but, if their stance was as widely held as we are told by media and left wing propagandists, the population and business growth miracle Texas has experienced over the last twenty-five years would not have happened.
Sure there are company leaders and workers who loudly oppose Texas not embracing leftist cultural policies but, if their stance was as widely held as we are told by media and left wing propagandists, the population and business growth miracle Texas has experienced over the last twenty-five years would not have happened.
Yes there are people moving to Texas who dislike, and even despise, conservative social policy but, the overall numbers demonstrate that clearly more people find comfort living in a conservative state than the opposite.
If Texas is to continue to grow, it should continue to promote the economic, regulatory, and cultural conservatism that has attracted millions from states with the opposite policies. Politicians should not fall prey to the lie that social conservatism puts growth at risk.
Pols should come to realize that it is beneficial that some are offended by Texas’ conservative social policy – we can’t keep conservative fiscal policy through the ballot box if the voting pool becomes one that is non-conservative in general.
Let those liberal folk stay in California, Illinois, New York, and other havens for heathens, while we welcome those actively escaping such. Otherwise, Gone to Texas won’t be much different than Gone to Hell.
‘Gone to Texas’ or ‘Gone to Hell’ in 2024
This column was originally published in the, almost, world famous Buffalo Gap Round-Up News, January 2024 issue.
Where did those companies go?
According to a report from The Center Square, more than half picked up on the 19th Century craze abbreviated as “GTT” which stands for Gone to Texas!
In 2023, alone a third of the companies that left California moved to Texas including three substantial firms that moved their corporate headquarters to rapidly growing Frisco north of Dallas.
Texas success in luring workers to the Lone Star State is phenomenal.
The list of firms moving their principal offices to Texas over the last decades is so impressive that Texas now boasts more big company HQ’s than New York City and that trend is not expected to end anytime soon.
The run of the Texas Miracle, as it has been called for twenty years, most certainly can end if Texas Republican lawmakers, other officials, and voters allow themselves to be hoodwinked into believing that conservative social policy should be dialed back because such is “bad for business.”
Conservative social policy, running the gamut from pro-life, anti-abortion laws and strong anti-drug and anti-gambling laws, to decidedly pro traditional family policies opposed by the homosexual lobby, go hand-in-hand with the success Texas has seen in luring companies with a generally lower tax and regulatory burden.
Texas success in luring workers to the Lone Star State is phenomenal.
The Census Bureau says that in 2023, 473,543 people moved to Texas which is about 1,300 per day. This “was also the trend in 2022, including residents fleeing Blue states. A large number, more than 102,000 Californians and 30,000 New Yorkers, moved to Texas last year, according to Census data,” The Center Square reported.
It’s all the rage among non-conservative Republicans, fed mostly by the propaganda from anti-Republican interests that dominate the popular media and cultural apparatus, to believe that conservative social policies scare business and talent away and thus should be pursued with great caution.
Texas is full of liberals and liberalism. But Texas is also generally understood to be tremendously more conservative both politically and culturally than the states from which people are coming – an often ignored fact that concretely argues against this insidious idea that promoting conservative business and conservative social policy puts the state at a disadvantage.
Sure there are company leaders and workers who loudly oppose Texas not embracing leftist cultural policies but, if their stance was as widely held as we are told by media and left wing propagandists, the population and business growth miracle Texas has experienced over the last twenty-five years would not have happened.
Sure there are company leaders and workers who loudly oppose Texas not embracing leftist cultural policies but, if their stance was as widely held as we are told by media and left wing propagandists, the population and business growth miracle Texas has experienced over the last twenty-five years would not have happened.
Yes there are people moving to Texas who dislike, and even despise, conservative social policy but, the overall numbers demonstrate that clearly more people find comfort living in a conservative state than the opposite.
If Texas is to continue to grow, it should continue to promote the economic, regulatory, and cultural conservatism that has attracted millions from states with the opposite policies. Politicians should not fall prey to the lie that social conservatism puts growth at risk.
Pols should come to realize that it is beneficial that some are offended by Texas’ conservative social policy – we can’t keep conservative fiscal policy through the ballot box if the voting pool becomes one that is non-conservative in general.
Let those liberal folk stay in California, Illinois, New York, and other havens for heathens, while we welcome those actively escaping such. Otherwise, Gone to Texas won’t be much different than Gone to Hell.
See also: https://www.uhaul.com/Articles/About/U-Haul-Announces-Top-Growth-States-Of-2023-30660/