I am from Michigan and I consider it my home. I am loyal to it. Every year, people leave my state to find higher paying jobs down South and out West and in my mind, they are no different than the carpet baggers of the Union in 1865 or the carpet baggers from India, China who move to the U.S. for the same reason.   There are three reasons I would move from Michigan: 1. My health 2. Dire poverty (I mean not having enough to eat or pay rent) 3. Physical danger  My nation is Michigan, which is a sovereign state in a voluntary union. Tell me, you carpet baggers who move to wherever the grass is greener, where is your pride and loyalty to your state and how are you different from an Indian or Pakistani moving to the U.S.? Well, I try to be. But the cold winters, ghetto cities, and worst economy of any state in the union makes it very difficult sometimes. You know what I'm talking about. We should all be loyal to our particular state, seems like most people don't really care these days. When I see all of these beaners and Arabs all over the place in Michigan and when I see what the Blacks did to Detroit and Flint it makes my blood boil. Sure it makes me mad to see this sort of thing happening to any state, but when it's in my own backyard it's even worse. Texas, Calfornia, etc...that's all just like a foreign country to me so when I hear how bad it's getting down there it doesn't bother me as much. But when I see the beaners all over the construction sites up here, and the Arabs in every gas station, I feel like seeing their heads on a pike. Makes me sick to my stomach to see these non White, foreign aliens running around in my own backyard. Of course not literally my backyard, the first black, brown or whatever else I find trespassing on my property is going to meet Mr. 12 gauge. :D