I encourage like-minded individuals to cluster in like-minded states. That's one of the neat thing about states rights. And if, for example, a conservative wants to live in CA to make $200K/yr and suck it up being a minority there, that's their choice. Even if they live in a conservative city/county, the state social/political scene rules. Just like for progressives who live in Austin.
If they later choose to make $75K/yr and move to Utah to be near like-minded people, they get to do that. However if CA, by means of population, suddenly becomes strong enough to tell people in Utah how to live, that's uncool, man.
Friend of mine and Castlekey's is a VERY liberal doctor. She grew up in DC, daughter of very liberal parents, and of course, when she got married and got into practice, she moved right back to DC.
And started bitching about how horrible it was for her to not have representation in Congress.
Castlekey absolutely anchored her when he asked if she was scared when someone held a gun to her head and forced her to buy a half million dollar house in DC and thus deprived her of her rights...
She didn't have much to say to that.
I've always wanted to change DC's "slogan" on its license plates to "Willfully choosing to be unrepresented."