The unfathomable depths of blue-state fraud
For all of American history, the its states have ebbed and flowed as winners and losers of internal migration. Land booms, gold rushes and industrial revolutions draw people in, only for later downturns to drive them back out. Over the past decade, however, an arresting pattern has emerged. If one looks at the movement of people into and between America’s states, there is a clear political coloring in the flows. Americans are leaving the nation’s bluest states and decamping to red Republican ones. What is the great attraction for this foreign tide? A sequence of scandals has hinted at what the answer might be Of the ten states that are
