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I moved from California to Texas but only stayed 4 months. Texas isn't much cheaper, and everyone was politics-obsessed. (www.businessinsider.com)

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Kellee Speakman, a conservative elementary school teacher, moved from California to Texas in 2022 but returned after four and a half months due to Texas's political obsession and unexpected living costs.
Speakman found Texas to be not much cheaper than California, with high property taxes, expensive services, and lower wages, which contributed to her dissatisfaction.
She returned to California, appreciating its lifestyle, public lands, and better teacher benefits, realizing that her idea of freedom involved peace and everyday adventures rather than political rhetoric.

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[–] stankmut@lemmy.world 47 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The last gasp of the 'mind your own business' conservatives in Texas was either the 2016 election or the one after that. There was a period of time where you had the Lt Governor trying to pass culture war bills (like anti-trans bathroom bills) in the senate and then they would die in the house when the speaker wouldn't put them up for a vote due to it being bad for attracting businesses. Once the MAGA Republicans got voted in, it's been full steam ahead for them.

It's not like things were great before then, but it wasn't this race to the bottom like it is now.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It really got rolling when Bush Jr got elected governor. It had been festering for a while.

The southern strategy merged with big oil money, and utilized the conservative Baptist churches to try to shame people into getting on board.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That's when it started, but for a long time everyone was still in that "fuck off, I'll live my life and you live yours" after that. I remember being taught if you don't like what someone is doing and it doesn't affect anyone except the person who is doing it, you don't have to watch them do it. I think the exact phrase was more succinct. That was in the 80s and 90s.

Even when I left the state and came back in the mid to late 00s it was a lot of "mind your own fucking business" as individuals. No one really started saying shit out loud until the mid 2010s that I remember, but suddenly it was everywhere.

Now we still have shit turnout but a lot of really loud morons who were telling everyone to mind their own fucking business 2 decades ago now yelling about trans women and abortion.