Conservatives go to red states and liberals go to blue as the country grows more polarized

July 06, 2023

Americans are segregating by their politics at a rapid clip, helping fuel the greatest divide between the states in modern history. In Colorado, state law prevents any restrictions on abortion. Businesses catering to conservatives fleeing blue states have sprouted, such as Blue Line Moving, which markets to families fleeing from blue states to Florida. “Most of the people we’ve met here are from California originally.”In Denver, Dean has found other people who fled red states. She and her partner, Cassidy Dean, discovered that their neighbors fled Florida after the state’s hard turn to the political right.