Moving Doesn’t Escape Culture Wars

Relocating to a more congenial state is a poor long‑term strategy against politicized cultural conflict because the conflicts export themselves through litigation, media narratives, and electoral shifts. High‑profile moves (e.g., corporate HQs, media figures) can attract countermeasures from host‑state politics and accelerate the national diffusion of the original dispute. — If true, exit (migration of people or firms) is not a safe refuge and policy debates must focus on containing and reversing political contagion rather than enabling geographic escape.