# Post-Roe v Wade and Voting with your Feet
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-roe-v-wade-and-voting-with-your-feet/341629
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [January 25, 2006, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-roe-v-wade-and-voting-with-your-feet/341629 "2006-01-25T22:53:35Z")
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### Author:  [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2006, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-roe-v-wade-and-voting-with-your-feet/341629/41 "2006-01-29T07:34:28Z")
The OP is not completely ludicrous, but I expect that the effect would be small.
By the way, while migration is typically thought to be driven by job considerations, non-economic factors can play a measurable role as well:
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> [link](http://ideas.repec.org/a/kap/iaecre/v11y2005i3p267-274.html)
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> The empirical estimates indicate that gross state in-migration was an increasing function of expected per capita income on the one hand or actual per capita income on the other hand and a decreasing function of the average cost of living. Interstate unemployment rate differentials per se do not appear to have influenced gross migration, however. In addition, gross state in-migration was an increasing function of the availability of state parks, recreation, warmer temperatures, location in the West, and greater sunshine while being a decreasing function of the violent crime rate and the presence of hazardous waste sites.
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### Author:  [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2006, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-roe-v-wade-and-voting-with-your-feet/341629/42 "2006-01-29T08:54:46Z")
> [@burundi](#):
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> It would not surprise me at all if North Carolina moved to restrict abortion or continued to prohibit same-sex marriage. I wouldn’t be happy about it, and I’d work to change things, but pick up and move? Nuh-uh.
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> North Carolina is my home. I’ve lived here all my life. My family has been here for over two hundred years. My roots run deep. This place belongs to liberal ol’ me just as much as it belongs to my conservative neighbors. I’m sure there are plenty of conservatives in California and New York who feel the same way about their home state.
Yeah, I grew up in the South and when I was very young a lot of civil rights protests and such were happening. At the time I was too young to really know anything about it, I knew that blacks had different color skin than me, and for some reason that meant they were different and that different rules applied to them. I understood the civil rights movement was them not liking that.
I asked my dad one day after watching the news why they didn’t just move to another state, wouldn’t that be easier than what they were doing? His response was more or less to the effect of, “They’re southerners too, why would they want to leave their home?”
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### Author:  [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2006, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-roe-v-wade-and-voting-with-your-feet/341629/43 "2006-01-29T08:59:12Z")
> [@jsc1953](#):
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> would we start seeing subtle population shifts? Would there be a trend towards pro-lifers moving from a Pro-Life State to a Pro-Choice State (and vice versa)?
Nope, people tend to move either for economic reasons or because other factors forced them to move. (Disaster, war, etc.) You might find a hand full of people who will move, for example I actually know someone who moved to New Zealand because he hates George Bush, but for the most part people will go where the money is.
Abortion is but one political issue in the United States and one that is overblown in my opinion. I don’t think most people consider the question of abortion to be all that important to their own lives but it’s a hot button issue among some so it gets more press than deserved.
Marc
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