It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => General Board => Topic started by: LadyVirginia on March 04, 2012, 05:27:12 PM
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According to a new Public Policy Polling survey, California and Illinois are the least popular states in the union, while Hawaii, Colorado, Tennessee, South Dakota and Virginia are the most popular.
This says a lot more about the inherent flaws of telephone surveys than it does about the charms of any of these states.
The fact is, California is the most popular state in America. How do I know this? I looked at the latest census count, which found that 37 million people live in California, making it the most populous state.
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Using the same logic, Illinois is the fifth most popular state, because it’s fifth in population. And other states are jealous of us because we’re the home of the president of the United States (who won the popular vote), the most powerful man in the world. (We’re also the home of the most powerful man in the universe. Go to Metropolis if you don’t believe me.)
(http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/Illinois-Named-2nd-Least-Popular-State-140741343.html)
Logic of a liberal.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304444604577340531861056966.html?mod=rss_opinion_main (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304444604577340531861056966.html?mod=rss_opinion_main)
Now, however, the Golden State's fastest-growing entity is government and its biggest product is red tape. The first thing that comes to many American minds when you mention California isn't Hollywood or tanned girls on a beach, but Greece. Many progressives in California take that as a compliment since Greeks are ostensibly happier. But as Mr. Kotkin notes, Californians are increasingly pursuing happiness elsewhere.
Nearly four million more people have left the Golden State in the last two decades than have come from other states. This is a sharp reversal from the 1980s, when 100,000 more Americans were settling in California each year than were leaving. According to Mr. Kotkin, most of those leaving are between the ages of 5 and 14 or 34 to 45. In other words, young families.
I guess I'd have to wonder if the author who said that he knows the phone survey is wrong because he looked at the census data can comprehend that, just because California was a popular place in the past and the population at that time exploded (thereby giving them a population advantage now), doesn't mean that they are still popular. As the story I just dredged up seems to point out, noting that the population seems to be fleeing the state in large numbers. At some point in the not-to-distant-future, it seems like California's population is going to be less than other states as a result. Does that mean that that is when the state will be less popular? Or does it mean that now, when the population is fleeing is when it is less popular?
Methinks the answer to that question is undoubtedly, 'Now.' and the author of the piece from the original post is completely wrong.
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When I was a teenager, California was like Shangri La. Everyone I knew who hadn't been there dreamed of going there, and those who had been were envied.