🧩 BND Motif Index · M1426
Don't California my Texas
Newcomers from a state run by the other party are said to bring its politics with them, fleeing the mess and then voting for what made it, until their new home turns into the place they left.
🕵️ Theories🗂️ Immigrant motifs🗂️ Elections
- 4claims filed under it
- 1left show it came up on
- 8right shows it came up on
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🪜 rests on 🧩 Political realignment
↔️ answers and mirrors:
- 🧩 Voting with their feet answers Voting with their feet
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Importing voters
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (1 left-leaning, 0 center, 8 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- 🐘 Fox News Rundown 2 claims
- 🐘 Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 1 claim
- 🫏 CNN 5 Things 1 claim
- 🐘 Louder with Crowder 1 claim
- 🐘 Morning Wire 1 claim
- 🐘 The Dan Bongino Show 1 claim
- 🔀 The Jimmy Dore Show (podcast) 1 claim
- 🐘 The Mark Levin Show 1 claim
- 🐘 The Michael Berry Show 1 claim
- 🐘 Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words 1 claim
- left-leaning
- right-leaning
- crossover
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “I'm worried about all the new state residents they now have” “Texas has a new electorate basically every three years because of the amount of people who move there.” “the story basically that Californians are coming in and they're turning Texas blue... It's not like migration to Texas has been uniformly liberal” “There is part of the problem in Texas is there's enormous influx in California.” “They will ruin Texas and they will California-ize it” “We could lose Texas. by the number of leftists moving to Texas from California”
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Told on the left 0
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
🦗 No claim heard only on the left so far.
Told on the right 3
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
- 2026-11-07 “Texas is a blue state because major statewide offices and the Senate went blue.” 3
- 2026-11-02 “People are leaving leftist states like California and New York to move to Texas.” 4
- 2026-11-01 “People migrating to Texas are not uniformly liberal in their attitudes.” 1
Told on both sides 1
claims heard on left- and right-leaning shows alike
- 2026-11-03 “The influx of new residents in Texas is changing the state's character.” 3
M1426 · first seen 2026-11-01 · last 2026-11-03 · what this is · how the index works