Like a dummy, I asked Google a question.
It was "Are people moving out of blue states to red states?" A better way of asking it is "Are people moving from Northern states with fat governors to Southern states?"
Google says "Yes", so don't get on me about documenting my sources.
The AI Overview says (and who are you to question the great and powerful "AI Overview"?):
I can speak with some confidence regarding this because I was born, raised, and live in Marietta, Georgia, which is the epicenter of people moving to Georgia from "blue" states. It has been going on as long as I can remember. Except we called the people moving from blue states "Yankees".
My parents were a part of the first migration to Marietta in the early 50s because of the Lockheed plant.
My dad moved here from East Tennessee to work at Lockheed because "they were hiring" (Dad never went into great biographical details), and my mom moved from Mississippi to help her sister who had twins. Having twins was a big deal back then.
Soon, other people were moving to Marietta to work at Lockheed, but they were mostly from around the South, too. Occasionally, you would run into a kid who was from an exotic place like Missouri, but that was about it.
Well, progress marches on and the Interstate Highway system linked Marietta to Atlanta where you theoretically could live in Marietta, and shoot down to Atlanta in a "couple of minutes". Of course, a couple of minutes soon became a couple of hours, but you could still enjoy the city of Atlanta, and the bucolic life in Marietta.
It was in 1972 when the dam burst and all of the Yankees started moving to Marietta. Kids from Illinois, Indiana, and Massachusetts began filling up the classes of East Cobb Junior High School.
I remember when I first saw a kid from Massachusetts. The office administrator brought her to my class and said, "This is Lynn and she's from Massachusetts." I must admit I stared at her because I had never seen a real live person from Massachusetts, except for the four hundred Kennedys that were always on TV.
The kids of my class basically got along with our Northern compatriots, except they all were a little bit smarter, a little bit better looking, and dare I say it, a little more sophisticated than we Southerners.
There were some hiccups. I've heard stories of Southerners stomping on other kids' feet for no reason except meanness. Baptist kids walking up to Catholic kids and telling them they were going to Hell. Even with that, I think I can share with people thinking of moving to Marietta about the do's and don'ts
DO: Learn to eat Southern food. You don't have to have hawg jowls and all of that, but you do need to eat barbecue pork. Trust me, you'll be glad you did.
DON'T: Quit talking about not being able to get a good slice of pizza anywhere at 2:00 in the morning. First of all, you should be in bed, resting up for church because Brother Harold is finishing up his six- sermon series on "Great Greek Words Of The Bible". Secondly, what are you doing up at 2:00 in the morning? Visiting a honky-tonk?
DO: Learn to appreciate air conditioning. Blessed be the name of Willis Carrier.
DON'T: Share "how much better we did it in ________". We don't care how they did it up there. We have a local politician who somehow got elected to office even though she has said on occasion, "In Detroit, it was done this way." Really. We are looking to Detroit as an example of how to do something?
DO: Wear a t-shirt with sleeves. You look tacky if you don't.
DON'T: Cuss. Look, I know everybody thinks they are a Soprano, but you don't have to cuss so much, unless your team's star halfback fumbles the ball.
DO: Say "Please" and "Thank you", basic polite society stuff. You won't die, it's not poison.
DON'T: Teach us to drive in the snow. For one thing, we get ice down here, and even y'all can drive on it. For another, it gives us a free day off.
* For the record, we do not have anything like the two images in the above picture.
