BOOK: American Catholic Refugees, by Auguste Meyrat

By Auguste Meyrat, The Catholic Thing, September 30, 2024

Auguste Meyrat is an English teacher in the Dallas area. He holds an MA in Humanities and an MEd in Educational Leadership. He is the senior editor of The Everyman and has written essays for The Federalist, The American Thinker, and The American Conservative as well as the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture.

Although many Americans focus on migration coming from south of the border, an even bigger issue has been the mass migration of Americans from blue states to red states in the past decade. Because of the high taxes, lack of social services, and worsening conditions for middle and working-class families, many residents from progressive bastions like California, New York, Illinois, and Minnesota have resettled in relatively conservative states like Florida, Tennessee, or my home state of Texas.

Beyond the changing demography, this migration has affected the culture and politics of the states involved, though not in the way most observers expected. Rather than turning red states purple, the influx of migrants from the blue states made the red states even redder. It’s, therefore, more apt to view these newcomers more as embittered refugees escaping a failed state than colonists ready to spread their superior way of life to less civilized parts of the country. …

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