Article without paywall: https://archive.is/2025.09.08-113402/https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/08/mississippi-republican-states-police-cities/
Other red states have made similar moves in blue cities even as crime in those cities has decreased sharply from pandemic-era highs. And now President Donald Trump is borrowing from the playbook, sending federal agents and National Guard troops to patrol the nation’s capital and threatening to do the same elsewhere.
“It’s part of the narrative that these cities are incapable of administering public safety even though crime is on a downswing since the pandemic,” said Jorge Camacho, an associate research scholar in law at Yale Law School. “You still need a foil to blame for problems that are real and imagined. I expect to see that wielded for the foreseeable future.”
I’m a leftist living in a deep red state. I’m prepared to leave if things get bad enough. I’ll move to Oregon. Sure, it’s more expensive, but I think it will be well worth it.
I’m a leftist in a deep red state, i refuse to leave and i will fight the nazi’s no problem.
I know this area VERY well and i know where to gain supporters and start a militia. I have all the experience needed to teach others, so i’m not worried. Going to the protests in the deepest red cities has shown me that i have thousands of like minded people around me that will also fight.
Leaving is what they want you to do, self deport as they say.
Now is the time to firm that Militia and start training. Tomorrow is too late.
I know, but if it can avoid violence then I think self deporting is a good alternative to civil war. I’d rather a peaceful split up than a bloody fight. I don’t want to kill conservatives, I just don’t want to be ruled by them.
Edit: but I also don’t feel overly attached to the state I’m in because I didn’t grow up here. Although, the state I did grow up in is also a deep red state, but I didn’t feel any great loyalty to that state either. IDK, I can understand why some people don’t want to give up their home, but war is so destructive. I mean, how much of your state would you be willing to destroy in your war for it?
I moved to Oregon two years ago. Most cost of living websites say Oregon is more expensive than Florida. Where I was previously. It’s not.
Though I have been told to tell others Oregon is a hell scape and it’s best to not move here.
I worry that if I just moved anywhere else in the U.S. there might come a time when blue states get invaded by red and the same problem I ran away from just follows me there.
https://lailluminator.com/2025/02/09/national-guard-deport/
I know I can’t just go to another country without a job, and I really don’t have the money to just pack up everything and leave anyway. A friend of mine recently tried to do this and got turned away at the Canadian border bc they didn’t believe she was just coming to stay for short visit.
It think the POTUS can only treat immigrants like garbage, shit talk other countries, and repeatedly threaten to invade them so many times before they start to keep receipts.
Outside of Portland, Eugene, and Corvallis, Oregon is surprisingly* backwards. There’s a whole movement to take basically all of the rural parts of the state and incorporate into Idaho. I know. They want to be part of Idaho of all fucking places.
*I shouldn’t say it’s surprising, actually. The territory was founded on the principle of being a whites-only enclave.
I don’t doubt it, but even still Oregon generally is much more aligned with my values than any red state I can think of. Plus, if there is a large exodus of leftists and liberals out of red states, I think many will choose to go to the Pacific coast states, and that will only increase the ratio in those states in favor of “us.” If those folks would rather be a part of Idaho, they can move to Idaho. No one’s stopping them.
It is.
You get what you pay for. Red states/regions are cheaper because they’re shittier. Simple as.