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Please do not take HN threads further into political, ideological, regional, or regional flamewar. We don't need or want this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: we've had to ask you this repeatedly before. We eventually ban accounts that keep ignoring such requests. I don't want to ban you, so if you wouldn't mind reviewing the guidelines and fixing this, we'd be grateful.

Why do people leave CA? Because they don't like what it's becoming. So they move somewhere else. But it's not really what they want, either. What they want is maybe 75% Texas, 25% California. So they try to move Texas, not all the way to California, but in that direction. To the people in Texas, that feels like "trying to turn Texas into California".

People make the state as it is today, so those people are exactly the reason what made CA is becoming. No they don't want to do just 25%, they want to own it and do 100+% their way wherever they migrate to, it's called Stockholm Syndrome. After they destroy a new place, they will move on to yet another state, which is why I call epidemic.

You're assuming that, in bulk, the people who leave are the same as the people who stay. That's possible, but I suspect that it is not actually true.

I deduced it based on all the people I know who moved from CA to TX, I can tell you there are quite a lot of them. The pattern is quite obvious to me. Over time I adapted to it somehow by reminding myself to stay absolutely politically correct when I communicate with them, which also means, there is no way to develop any friendship at all when you have to act like a politician.

People leave every state. CA population is actually growing and added over 2mn in the last decade

What a myopic, hateful comment.

You are no more entitled to keeping it as whatever idealistic version you have in your head as they are making it into theirs.

Also, I'll note that trying to sow discord between groups of people in the US, and very specifically promoting the secession of California, is a known Russian active measures tactic.[1]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-41853131

Please do not take HN threads further into political, ideological, regional, or nationalistic flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Serious question--what is the best way to report or educate other thread participants about these sorts of things? I cited a credible source as to the usage of that topic as part of active measures. Are we just supposed to let those topics fester here?

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