Highways are built not to reduce traffic (it only does so very temporarily), but to encourage and support current and future economic growth.

They asked for "dumpy up and coming city" not liberal safe havens.

If more people moved to red states instead of threatening to move to canada when republicans take higher office, our country might look a lot different.

The reason the properties are cheap is because the government isn’t pro NIMBY bullshit. That has nothing to do with liberal views. Even the deep red states have college towns with cheap housing if you can’t stand to live in a place where there are people with different views from you.