# Boris Johnson for VEEP

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boris-johnson-for-veep/758696>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 29, 2016, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boris-johnson-for-veep/758696 "2016-06-29T13:24:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boris-johnson-for-veep/758696/21 "2016-07-04T12:06:26Z")

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> [@ftg](#):
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> Another possible “gotcha”. Where would Boris’s residence be if returned to the US? (Actually time traveling to meet the necessary residency requirement.)

Anywhere but New York. It’s not a hard problem to defeat. Even if he wanted to live in the area of his birth, there are other states within view of NYC. All he’d have to do is have a house there.

> [@thelurkinghorror](#):
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> He was a congressman from Wyoming 21 years before he became VP. Maybe some wrangling was done but it wasn’t an arbitrary choice coming from nowhere.

Arbitrary choices coming from nowhere are allowed, though. I don’t think you can be denied residency in a state just because you’re moving there for craven political reasons. (Mostly since a citizen can’t be denied residency in a state at all. The 14th Amendment says that if you’re a US citizen, you can live wherever you want for whatever reason you want and the state just has to deal with it.)

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**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boris-johnson-for-veep/758696/22 "2016-07-04T16:57:41Z")

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> [@Lord\_Feldon](#):
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> Anywhere but New York. It’s not a hard problem to defeat. Even if he wanted to live in the area of his birth, there are other states within view of NYC. All he’d have to do is have a house there.
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> Arbitrary choices coming from nowhere are allowed, though. I don’t think you can be denied residency in a state just because you’re moving there for craven political reasons. (Mostly since a citizen can’t be denied residency in a state at all. The 14th Amendment says that if you’re a US citizen, you can live wherever you want for whatever reason you want and the state just has to deal with it.)

Yes, it’s perfectly legal, as it should be, but often a political liability. The term is carpetbagger.

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