The past year I have been writing extensively about what I call the “great conservative migration,” a shift in U.S. demographics not seen since the Great Depression. Approximately 8.9 million Americans have relocated since the beginning of the COVID lockdowns according to the U.S. Postal Service, and a large portion of these people are leaving left-leaning blue states for conservative red states in the west and the south. States like California, Illinois, New York and New Jersey were at the top of the list of states people wanted to escape.
The response from leftist states has been amusing. California, for instance, has tried to obscure the data on population loss and has dismissed the existence of the migration. They claim that the state population is actually rising but fail to mention that most of California’s population “gains” have been from babies born along with an increase in illegal immigration. This has not offset the 267,000 individuals and families that left the state in 2020 alone. That’s an entire city of people, gone in a single year.
And where are these people going? Places like Idaho, Texas, Tennessee, Florida, etc. all red states that are fighting back against draconian COVID mandates and other unconstitutional measures. The only outlier seems to be Oregon, which also has seen a population spike, and this indeed appears to be a migration of Californians to the north. This leads some conservative groups to believe there is an “invasion” going on of liberals into red states. After looking at the data and meeting many people moving to my own area in Montana, I find the “liberal invasion” narrative to be fraudulent.
Leftists don’t relocate to red states, at least not very often. Rather, they relocate an hour or two from the cities they are addicted to. This is what the data from San Francisco shows, at least. With over 80 percent of people moving from the city staying within California. In other words, lefties want to get out of the cities, but they don’t want to move far from their beloved progressive Utopias and mild weather, and they certainly don’t plan on embedding in conservative strongholds and taking over. That theory is “so 1900s.”
No, the people moving across state lines today are mostly conservatives, they are congregating en masse in red states, and the effects have been rather dramatic. Home prices have skyrocketed due to extreme demand. In Montana, people are buying real estate sight unseen, a lot of it raw land that they are trying to build on. Lumber prices have tripled, and anyone in construction is booked a year and a half out. There are new residents actually scouring the message boards looking for anyone who can do construction work for them. There is nobody available. No one I know has seen anything like it in their lifetime.
Luckily, a lot of these people seem to be on the same page in terms of principles. Those I have met are all conservative and the majority of them are preppers. They moved here because they know what is coming, and they want to be surrounded by like-minded neighbors when the manure hits the fan. Specifically, they do not want to be caught isolated in a blue state where vaccine passports, masks and lockdowns become a regular part of life for them and their children. They want to remain free.
Interestingly, I am also hearing rumors that the relatively small number of leftists that live in my county are trying to leave. Some have expressed the need to “get out” and vacation in places like Portland, Oregon, where they “feel safe” because “everyone wears masks.” And I say, good for them. Hopefully, they will stay there. These types of people are miserable excuses for human beings, and they try to make everyone else around them miserable by constantly whining about how “no one follows the COVID rules.”
As a point of reference, there have been only 17 deaths from COVID in my county in well over a year. The death rate is non-existent, and the virus already swept through the area with almost everyone either infected or asymptomatic. No one in Montana is afraid of this virus except a handful of weak-minded progressives.
My suspicion is that when all is said and done by the end of 2021 the U.S. will essentially be split into two distinct nations: A leftist Marxist nation that continues to degrade into tyranny, and a conservative nation where people escape to so they can keep their liberties. Leftists won’t want to live near us, and we certainly will not want to live near them.
Another factor to consider is red counties and the population shift into these areas. For example, the blue state of Virginia is actually only blue in a handful of counties, the majority are conservative and have stood in defiance of attempts by gun-grabbing Governor Ralph Northam, saying they will ignore any new gun laws Northam and the state Legislature passes. County governments and county sheriffs agree; Northam has no power in these places.
In Eastern Oregon and Northern California, there is a push by multiple counties to actually join Idaho and become a part of the conservative state. The majority of voters in these counties supported the transition. The idea being that this is not a secession, and so the move will be far easier to accomplish with fewer legal obstacles. The decision will be voted on by the county residents in May, and of course, there will be attempts to obstruct by congress.
Even if the movement is not successful, the fact that voters in red counties are unified in their goal to get away from leftist politics should be taken very seriously. The bottom line is this — the leftist ideology is collectivist ant totalitarian in nature. It is completely incompatible with the conservative values of liberty, meritocracy, limited government and free market economics.
The social justice cult has gone so far into extremism that reason and logic are actually vilified by them. Honestly, it is unlikely that we will be able to share the same landmass, let alone the same cities and states, but I’ll get to that in a moment…
At the state level, there has been a dramatic push-back against constitutional trespasses by the federal government under Biden, and these include measures that are aggressively promoted by the World Economic Forum and other globalist institutions in the name of the “Great Reset.” Multiple red states have passed laws or executive orders making it illegal to require proof of vaccination (vaccine passports). Some blue states have also “claimed” they will not require vaccinations, but the devil is in the details.
In Montana, the governor and the state Legislature will not allow government enforcement of vaccine passports and they also will not allow corporations to demand vaccine passports either. In blue states like Illinois, the government might keep its word, it might not, but they don’t really need to enforce vaccinations; all they have to do is allow major corporations to do it for them. With airlines, hotels, hospitals, and major retail chains requiring a vaccine passport for employment or to make purchases, the effect of medical tyranny will be the same.
These companies do not represent private business or free markets anymore. Instead, they are appendages of establishment power that receive billions in taxpayer dollars to finance their operations. They should no longer be treated as if they have the same rights as normal businesses. This is why it is perfectly acceptable for local and state governments to restrict corporate operations and prevent them from violating people’s rights.
Another interesting development is the number of red states that are passing laws that prevent the enforcement of any new federal gun restrictions. In Montana, Greg Gianforte just signed a bill nullifying federal gun bans. Federal rules do not apply here, and state law enforcement is prohibited from helping federal agencies assert such laws. Similar legislation has been passed or is being considered in multiple red states like Utah and Arizona.
It is unclear what would happen if the ATF or FBI tried to make arrests within Montana based on federal gun restrictions. I suspect that without extra protection from local law enforcement these agencies would be much more vulnerable in their operations. If they met with stiff resistance, they would be on their own. I also would not be surprised if sheriffs in most Montana counties stood in their way.
The mainstream media is almost completely silent on these developments. They barely even acknowledge the conservative migration. I doubt they will speak of the separation at all until the latest census data is more thoroughly examined. However, the changes to our nation are going to have far-reaching consequences, and the effects will be obvious in the near term.
The “Great Reset” is meant to be a global project; meaning, no one is allowed to opt-out. Leftists and globalists are notoriously plantation-minded; they believe that society is involuntary, and their rules for society should apply to all people. Those who wish to leave are actually seen as traitors because the very act of leaving suggests that the system is flawed, and doubt creates questions, and questions create demands, and demands lead to resistance, and resistance leads to rebellion.
The progressive/globalist plantation becomes an exercise in antagonistic self-affirmation — you cannot leave the system, because everything is fine, and if you left people might think something is wrong and then everything would not be fine, so why would you want to upset the balance and ruin what is already perfect?
In my last article, I noted that red states in the U.S. are the only places in the world where freedom from the Reset is ingrained and people have the means to fight back. I still stand by that assertion. Some conservatives think countries like Russia are going to fight the Reset, yet Putin and the Russian government-enforced extensive COVID restrictions recommended by the World Economic Forum and the World Health Organization, just like every other government. The head of the Russian Parliament’s committee on public health, Dmitri Morozov, stated that vaccine passports were “very important and needed in Russia.”
Let’s face it, no major government is coming to save us; these delusional fantasies of Russia or any other foreign nation fighting against the Reset need to stop. The bottom line is this: The American red states are probably the only regions in the world that are resisting the reset agenda while also having the arms to back their resolve. If a rebellion is going to start against the globalists, it will start here.
What does this mean for the future? It means we are going to be targeted. This is how I see the situation playing out…
I have no doubt that the first step by the federal government under Biden will be to start cutting off federal funds to red states while flooding blue states with stimulus money. The strategy being that blue states will have free goodies while red states languish in poverty as people reliant on a government check will become despondent or angry. Of course, these taxpayer-backed funds belong to all the states, but that won’t matter to Biden or to leftists; they will claim we are getting what we deserve.
The logical response by red states will be to stop paying taxes, and to take over federal lands and the resources within them. Red states and red counties could also negate all EPA and BLM restrictions on resource usage and launch an epic revitalization of industry. In my area, I believe the logging industry which has been stifled by the federal government will return in full force. With lumber prices nearing hyperinflationary levels, it makes perfect sense. This will enrage the feds.
The next step would be to restrict travel to and from certain red states in order to isolate them. Perhaps even shutting down airline flights and proclaiming that red states are “havens” for COVID infection. This will not go over well with conservatives, and we will start demolishing any checkpoints that are meant to keep us in. Leftist-controlled regions will start checking license plates and ID and harassing or arresting anyone from a conservative area. Travel will stagnate as people will not know which places are safe and which are dangerous.
There will also be attempts to use federal agencies to insert into conservative areas to make arrests based on federal laws that have been nullified. The goal will be to make examples out of some people and frighten conservatives into submission. Eventually, the shooting will start, and federal agents will die. Biden will demand a martial law response.
If everything develops as described, the question arises, how many people in the military are actually willing to die for Biden? My guess is not that many, but with the right excuses and rationalizations who knows? Conservatives have been demonized for many years now, there may be a large enough chunk of the military that actually believes the propaganda.
It could take two full terms of Biden for these events to happen. It could take far less time. I would not hold my breath for a 2024 election to defuse matters. I think most conservatives learned their lesson on the futility of politics the last four years. The best possible outcome right now is that conservatives congregate, unify and organize from the local level to the state level to the point that we act as a deterrent to future tyranny.
We all know one day the establishment is going to come for us, and if so then we’ll greet them with a long-range love letter (if you get my meaning). But at least we will know where we stand. At least we will be living among kindred spirits, and at least there will be a glimmer of hope for the world. Sometimes the greatest act of rebellion is to offer a safe haven, a place where the rules of tyrants hold no weight. Conservative states and counties are doing this today, and it is a beautiful thing.
