What’s the Conservative Equivalent of ‘Moving to Canada’?

When Democrats lose elections, a small but audible ratio of them invariably announce their intention to move to Canada, that liberal paradise where healthcare magically costs nothing, everybody is nice to each other, and maple syrup flows freely (although the price of cheese may lead to sticker shock).

But when Republicans lose, you almost never hear them grumbling in the same way. Are conservatives simply less prone to melodrama? Or would they just consider it treasonous to party and country to abandon the United States, even for redder pastures?

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What do you think, Tumblr: Where should conservatives threaten to move?

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4. enfantdelaballe answered: Alberta, obviously. Oh wait, it’s still part of Canada.
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6. kalejamesphotographic answered: Somalia would be my first choice but I suppose thats more tailor made for Libertarians.
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8. wordhord answered: Liberia? I’d say Saudi Arabia, but they have universal healthcare.
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10. austentranslation answered: Somalia—there’s no big government there!!
11. ruined-map answered: Israel
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14. cassiescupoftea answered: The moon.
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    Provided that Conservatives/ Republicans could handle the weather there are places in Canada that they would find...

16. razumikin answered: Pompeii in 79 BCE
17. ladycorvus answered: One of the catholic countries in south america
18. backbreakingnews answered: cant help what kinda family you
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20. koganbot answered: Where would they move to? I doubt that, say, Guatemala would be all that accommodating anymore.
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23. thisisphudge answered: Newt Gengrich’s Moon colonies
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26. twistycsc answered: I have a friend who said she’d still move to Canada, mostly because of the low corporate tax rates (her father is a businessman). Shrug.
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28. mollielarue answered: Good luck trying to understand conservatism from the northeast and ex-oh from the Dust Bowl.
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    except I think Mexico has a provision so that all people have access to public health care — the rich can pay for their...

33. gallerynextnow answered: You don’t really want me to answer that, do you?
34. theviraltruth answered: When Republicans threaten to leave the country they inevitably pick countries with universal healthcare and are quickly shamed into silence.
35. christopherdickey answered: Apparently it won’t be Australia: tinyurl.com/MoveToA…
36. happyseeker answered: Austria? Australia? They don’t have a lot of options… China?
37. diomedeanmedium answered: the 1950s
38. rachelgiulia answered: North Korea
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45. tonyplaysthemambo answered: Mexico. There’s no health care or gun laws there.
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47. athenagray answered: Nowhere considered the Western World, that’s for sure: far too socialist! And they would hate to live anywhere that shares similar ideals.
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49. browsery answered: The Caymans
50. m-jl-c said: Nowhere. America is already the most conservative industrialized nation in the world.
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