social media, but IMO much of it stems from asshole authoritarian fascist politicians. Frankly it depresses me some just reading and listening to what some youth today have to endure.

There will be a major brain drain resulting in an Idiocracy state. And the stupidity will make the movie a documentary instead of a comedy.

Similar situation here in Kansas, although we do have a Democratic Governor providing a speed bump to the conservative crazy train. Conservatives only answer the question of why you are doing what you are doing by responding. Freedom. They have proven they don’t know what the hell freedom is. They are driven by hate and fueled by ignorance. You would think that every red state legislature is chock full of brilliant medical experts and English scholars based on the subjects they target. I can assure you the Kansas State legislature is chock full of religious zealots, societal Neanderthals and people with hearts full of hate. And a small handful of Democrats.

I don’t know any kids planning on staying here.

'red' states, from my quick and informal survey, with few exceptions, IMHO.

Seemed to be a pattern here where most of the fleeing (non-youth populations) populations are also fleeing red states.
Pure chance? I think not, since red states tend to not have high tax bases thus unable or not wanting to offer services to their instate residents, whereas the non-red states offer more services to their residents (and are able to pay for it w/ the higher taxes). Since non-red states have more services, their urban areas are more robust, thus more able to attract more incoming people of all ages, who want these services.

The unfortunate thing is that property taxes are increasing, in some of these non-red states, thus causing hardships among those on fixed incomes, lower incomes, forcing some to move/downsize/etc. A shame really, and some states do recognize this, and do offer some sort of help to their seniors, to help them financially in handling costs, such as high property taxes, etc. (not enough though).

Makes me sad and more than a little mad