Everytime you say “eww I hate Texas and Florida, we’re better off without them” you’re turning your back on millions of marginalized people: POC, queer, disabled, poor, and telling them they don’t deserve to live in the same country as you.

And before you say “they should just move”: that’s what I did. It cost me thousands of dollars. It’s not something anyone can just do (nor should they have to) and it’s incredibly privileged to assume they can

Finally: I guarantee you that every time something bad happens in your blue state, there are conservatives all over the country doing the same thing you are.

They’re saying “well, it’s their fault for living there” or “it’s their fault for voting Democrat”.

So just know that “they deserve it for living in a red state” isn’t the brilliant take you think it is

Texas has several big blue cities where most of the people live, and the state government does everything they can to gerrymander them to hell and back. They make it extremely difficult to vote.

But I get it, it makes you feel good to just say “people in the south deserve every bad thing that happens to them” instead of demanding that your boy Joe Biden lift a single goddamn finger to codify our voting rights