{"id":94182,"date":"2023-07-07T15:16:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T20:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=94182"},"modified":"2023-07-07T15:16:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T20:16:21","slug":"94182","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=94182","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Colorado offers a stark Second Amendment warning to the six fast-growing states in the South<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s no secret that pro-freedom policies unleash human potential and lead to the creation of wealth and prosperity. The migration of people inevitably follows freedom. The world saw that last century: East Germans risked getting machine-gunned to escape communism to the West. Cubans built make-shift rafts to sail through shark-infested waters to freedom. Even in a generally free country like the United States, the same pattern holds true with domestic migration to freer states.<\/p>\n

Bloomberg\u00a0recently reported<\/a>\u00a0on the sheer<\/a>\u00a0magnitude of domestic migration<\/a>\u00a0of people and capital:<\/p>\n

A $100 Billion Wealth Migration Tilts US Economy\u2019s Center of Gravity South<\/b><\/p>\n

Some 2.2 million people moved to the Southeast in just over two years. That\u2019s roughly the population of Houston.<\/em><\/p>\n

Drive along the 240-mile stretch of the Atlantic coast from Charleston, South Carolina, through the grassy marsh land of southern Georgia and down into northern Florida, and you\u2019ll see one of the most profound economic shifts in the US today.[\u2026]<\/p>\n

More broadly, the entire South from here, north to Kentucky and west to Texas is where businesses are moving to, jobs are being created and homes are being bought. [\u2026]<\/p>\n

The numbers tell the story.\u00a0For the first time, six fast-growing states in the South \u2014 Florida, Texas, Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee \u2014 are contributing more to the national GDP than the Northeast<\/b>, with its Washington-New York-Boston corridor, in government figures going back to the 1990s. [\u2026]<\/p>\n

A flood of transplants helped steer about $100 billion in new income to the Southeast in 2020 and 2021 alone, while the Northeast bled out about $60 billion<\/b>, based on an analysis of recently published Internal Revenue Service data.<\/p>\n

The Southeast accounted for\u00a0more than two-thirds of all job growth across the US<\/b>\u00a0since early 2020, almost doubling its pre-pandemic share. And it was home to 10 of the 15 fastest-growing American large cities.[\u2026]<\/p>\n

\u201cYou could throw a dart anywhere at a map of the South and hit somewhere booming,\u201d said Mark Vitner, a retired longtime economist for Wells Fargo who now heads his own economic consultancy, Piedmont Crescent Capital, in Charlotte, North Carolina.[\u2026]<\/p>\n

\u201cWe now have more employees in Texas than New York state. It shouldn\u2019t have been that way,\u201d JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon said to Bloomberg TV on a swing through the South earlier this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As Walter Wriston, former CEO of Citicorp said, \u201cCapital goes where it is welcome and stays where it is well treated.\u201d A combination of good economic policies and the lack of reflexive hatred of businesses and their owners brought them to the South, and the results are there for everyone to see. Setting aside Bloomberg\u2019s concern trolling about \u201cinequality,\u201d which is just as prevalent in the Northeast, the takeaway is that the people\u00a0like<\/i>\u00a0living in the South. As Charleston County Republican Maurice Washington said:<\/p>\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t want to raise their kids in places like New York and California. You get a lot of that,\u201d Washington said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This growth pattern is great, but migration comes with its own risk.<\/p>\n

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For cues for what can happen, look no further than Colorado. Over the decades, Coloradans made thoughtful governance and public policy choices, enacting a flat tax rate of 5% in 1987, which was gradually lowered to 4.55%. Voters also approved a\u00a0Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR)<\/a>\u00a0via referendum in 1992 that impedes the growth of government by tying overall tax revenue to inflation and population growth, allowing larger increases only if approved by referendum. The results were similar to what Bloomberg reported above; Colorado went through\u00a0brisk economic<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0population growth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That population shift brought in \u201cprogressive\u201d voters who followed conservative growth-oriented policies, and then started voting for the same failed progressivism of the states they emigrated from.\u00a0Starting in 2013<\/a>, Colorado passed\u00a0several<\/a>\u00a0iterations<\/a>\u00a0of gun control. They chased away companies like gun industry behemoth\u00a0Magpul to neighboring Wyoming<\/a>. And\u00a0they aren\u2019t done<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What happened in Colorado is very likely to happen in the new growth states of Florida, Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.\u00a0Second Amendment voters and groups in these states need to be on guard and watch out for threats to their right to keep and bear arms, lest they be caught off guard by trends like Colorado\u2019s.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are ways of staving off creeping gun control in these new growth states if you live in one. First, get started immediately on fortifying the Second Amendment by passing\u00a0Strict Scrutiny constitutional amendments<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to your state constitutions. I have written about this before. Second, swell the ranks of gun owners in your state\u2019s electorate.\u00a0Start outreach activities to non-gun owners and bring them into the fold<\/a><\/strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0Lastly, gun ownership must be passed along to the next generation. As long as pro-Second Amendment taxpayers are forced to pay for government schools, those schools\u00a0must offer firearms instruction in schools<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0not exclude our views<\/a><\/strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0Abstinence-only education doesn\u2019t work whether it\u2019s about sex or guns.<\/p>\n

When there\u2019s already a dying canary in front of your eyes, you\u2019d better heed the warning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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