Daily News | Political refugees: Why a family fleeing Ron DeSantis’ Florida chose Swarthmore
“It’s not safe here anymore on so many levels,” Carolyne Ali-Khan — who taught social justice in education at the University of North Florida for a dozen years but has left for a small college in upstate New York —. “It’s not physically safe. It’s not economically safe. It’s not professionally safe. It’s not intellectually safe.
Florida isn’t alone, and as America heads into yet another presidential election split bitterly down the middle, this recent surge in interstate political refugees is clearly a two-way highway. A recenton the phenomenon quoted not just progressives fleeing the red states that have all but banned abortion or passed anti-LGBTQ laws, but also conservatives moving away from high taxes or the homelessness crisis in states like California, for the blood-red Mountain West.
Despite their very different backgrounds, both Stacey and Sanjay gravitated toward progressive politics. Sanjay, 46 — whose Indian parents brought him, undocumented, to America by way of Germany, and who earned a degree at UCLA ahead of a career mostly in project management — said he believes in an American Dream for immigrant families like his.
The Patels went all out. Stacey estimated that she and the small army of volunteers she recruited in taking over the in 2017 would go on to ring as many as a half million doorbells. Winning partisan elections in an increasingly pro-Trump county was almost impossible
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