are fleeing the Lefty hell-hole that is NYC and moving to Texas.
Burdened by high taxes, stifling regulations, rampant crime and homelessness, failing schools and an atmosphere that hampers the entrepreneurial American spirit, New Yorkers are flocking south for a friendlier and more vibrant alternative.
Yes, there IS a natural sorting that takes place–birds of a feather tend to flock together and all that. When groups hit a certain point, they just can no longer live together. The bible scholar/historian Hugh Nibley called it “The Rechabite Principle.”
Nibley characterized the sons of Rechab as “typical of the back-to-the-wilderness movements among the Jews in every age…”
Nibley argued that Jonadab ben Rekhab and his followers had gone out into the desert “to recapture the spirit of [the ideal Israelite] time,” recalling the years when Israel, having been delivered out of Egypt, was led through the wilderness by God’s hovering cloud by day and by his pillar of fire at night
(See: Jeremiah 35) The point is that historically there have been groups to separate themselves from others who have antithetical belief sets. Mild disagreements are pretty easily dealt with, but those “gaps” in beliefs tend to widen and widen (and it only takes one side to move), until the two groups can no longer tolerate living together.
And we also see this exact same thing on a personal level–people who were once friends find that their beliefs become more and more disparate until the point comes where at least one party simply refuses to be friends any longer.
It is predictable. Sad, but predictable.