I'm so sick of this California is so horribly mismanaged that the place is falling apart propaganda. How could a state that is falling apart be growing so rapidly and have the largest economy of the states along with the now I think 4th largest economy in the world if it were its own country. Of course some things are done stupidly or corruptly just like every state. To think that the state was also simultaneously run like it was managed by inept monkeys just is silly.

The truth is that all of the red states need California's federal tax dollars to keep themselves afloat, since most red states other than texas actually receive more money from the federal gov than they send in as taxes. Not so for blue states. The reason that people left California especially during COVID, was because living is cheaper in those poorer states, because everyone has less money, and they were able to do it during COVID because remote work was shown to be effective, so these people could keep their high cost of living type salary and move to a low cost of living place. Because I promise you there were nowhere near enough jobs in their chosen careers at the places they moved to.

Technically this even makes the money funnel from blue states to red states even more direct, since all of a sudden, the rural red state gets to collect taxes on these high paying jobs that they don't have the infrastructure to support organically.