People from Ohio are invading the South: Retiring &Starting Big Ten Clubs! [View All]

[KoKo]

We vacationed in SC for many years and shared a family owned property on one of the Resort Islands. It soon came to our attention that we had an Ohio Invasion! The Island Newsletter had so many posts for groups who were buying on the Island from Ohio and the rest of the Midwest, but Ohio being the most prominent. Then we started hearing about "Big Ten" Clubs on this little Southern Island where Clemson and U. of SC were really the "teams of choice" for the developers and the Locals.

Then when I started to notice how these retirees were voting after they were "full time residents" of SC, it seemed they voted Repub. And, this Island had a huge proportion of Military Retirees but also a famous Gold Medal Figure Skater who bought beach front property for 4 Million, and the "head guy at GE" who is member of private club and flies in on his private jet who owns another Millions of dollars McMansion.

All over the South Reitrees are coming (hugely from Midwest) but now from other parts of the East Coast and elsewhere, buying up beachfront properthy in Private Gated and otherwise communities and forming their own groups alienated from the local populations. Most of them seem to be voting Repug. Big Money, and Retired Military. There are small pockets of some Dem transplants, but for the most part it's Repug voters.

So, I'm wondering if most of the retirees to the Southern Parts of the Us are more to blame for the Repug Dominance, since the really poor mill workers and farmers have been put out of work by jobs going overseas and Agribusiness, and they are so sick of it all they don't even bother to vote. But, the folks from "ELSEWHERE" go to the polls and vote Repug to keep their McMansions and otherwise and don't wan't anyone bothering them about their golf courses and the maintenance, and the pesticides and the regulation that might make them pay more for their privileges of retiring in the "paradise" of their choice?

And, many of these folks I've met, are pretty conservative and would fit right in with the Bushies.

Something to think about when we "write off the South, or trash the South as being full of "Dixiecrats and Racists."