Red Zip Codes Are Getting Redder, Blue Zip Codes Are Getting Bluer
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🗓️ 21 February 2022
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NPR correspondent John Burnett spoke with some Texan transplants about how their politics impacted their choice of community.
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| 0:00.0 | Idaho, Tennessee, Oklahoma was a considering factor when we were looking at different ones, |
| 0:06.3 | but Texas had that um for us. That's Shirley Hussar, a proud Texan since 2018, but perhaps just as |
| 0:14.0 | importantly, she's a former Californian. Why did I leave California because immigration had taken |
| 0:19.2 | over a state that I grew up in? Hussar lived in Los Angeles County and she says the homeless |
| 0:23.6 | population there was also a major factor in why she left. It's not about feeling uncomfortable. |
| 0:28.7 | It is a process of living. You see a state that basically people are being subsidized by |
| 0:34.3 | a federal government. So she moved to Bartonville, Texas just north of Fort Worth. Why I moved because |
| 0:39.7 | of the cost of living, the opportunities that Texas offers. Um there's no income tax in Texas. |
| 0:45.6 | And while Hussar says politics wasn't a primary factor, she is conservative and she moved to a |
| 0:51.4 | predominantly red county and a predominantly red state. I came because I liked the energy of the |
| 0:56.8 | people. Texas people are nice people. We're talking about people who have the same ideologies, |
| 1:03.9 | people who are conservative, people who have family values and want to see family opportunity. |
| 1:08.8 | Texas is a great state. Consider this. When Americans decide to uproot their |
| 1:15.7 | lives and move to a new place, that place is often full of people who think, live and vote just like |
| 1:22.5 | they do. From NPR, I'm Ari Shapiro. It's Monday, February 21st. |
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| 2:14.4 | more geographically polarized. Red zip codes are getting redder and blue zip codes are getting |
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