Lots of denial in this thread.

CA is the most negative State in net domestic migration and TX is second to FL only at the other end of the scale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

CA is just terrible value for most people currently. I'm not American and neither is Musk, it's not like he's going to make such decision for ideological allegiances. He just gets better value for his money elsewhere. Currently CA seems pretty broken between rural, poor and underinvested areas; and super-expensive, badly mismanaged urban areas. I don't think he's going to move to the desert, he'll probably move to urban TX and it's rather liberal there.