Arizona Boom Draws Californians and Changes Political Hue
Colin Jordan, a 32-year-old software salesman, lists various predictable reasons for his move to Scottsdale from the San Francisco Bay Area. He likes sun and golf and lower income taxes. But beneath all that is something bigger, which is the feeling that Arizona has welcomed him in ways that California — where he grew up — did not.
There are certain expectations you come into after graduating from college and getting a $90,000-a-year job, and one is that you won’t be paying $1,800 a month for a bedroom in a backyard cottage, which was what Mr. Jordan was doing in the Bay Area. He liked living near his childhood home and working at a tech company in the nation’s capital of innovation. But not if there was no path to what he considered a middle-class life.
“I knew for sure I’m never going to own a home,” he said. “So I talked to my girlfriend, and that was our defining moment. I said: ‘I want to buy a house and start a life. Will you move with me?’”
People like Mr. Jordan — now married and living in a four-bedroom house in Old Town Scottsdale — are a big factor in Arizona’s economic boom, a decade after it was hit hard by the recession. They are also part of a changing political identity that has given the once-solidly conservative state, now home to more than seven million people, a more purple-hued electorate.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/business/economy/arizona-economy-primary.html
Arizona's climate is too torrid for me. I stopped off in Gila Bend last year on the way back to San Diego and it was 103 degrees at 9 PM. (But it was a dry heat...)
I think the influx of Californians into Colorado also affected its political direction.
My brother in Tennessee was complaining about how Californians were moving to his area and driving up home prices, but I told him it was a good thing for Tennessee to get a dose of California culture. Don't think he liked hearing that.
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but if the migrant Californios want to move there, fine by me. 
