Rush Limbaugh once had a caller on his show who couldn't find mining work in his economically-depressed area. "There are just no jobs in my state", the caller pleaded. Rush then responded with his usual know-it-all voice, "Then Move!". "Be willing to pack up and go to where the jobs are rather than complain." (Paraphrased)
This runs smack into the conservatives' claimed importance of "states rights". One of the biggest problems with states rights is that our "dynamic" economy has forced people to move to other states to find work more often.
People are more mobile now. The 1700's "political island states" model doesn't work so smooth any more; and lopsided "free trade", a conservative trophy project, has magnified the problem by increasing economic churn, and thus location churn. It's yet another case of where one conservative idea smacks into another in a cloud of contradiction, leaving one scratching their head trying to figure out conservative logic, assuming there is such a thing.
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