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...becoming a magnetic pole of a New West, replacing California as the ultimate, mythmaking destination, tantalizing the daydreams of restless souls itching to pick up and move. "These are sustainable economies, absolutely. It's not just another cycle but a permanent, historic shift," says Richard Lamm, the popular three-term former Governor of Colorado who now teaches public policy at the University of Denver. The Rockies' notorious history of booms and busts that created ghost towns as suddenly as gold rushes may be over...
...exporter of its well-educated population, particularly to the Pacific Coast, has had a net influx of 19,000 in each of the past two years. All the states report that the largest number of newcomers are former Californians. "There is a push-pull effect at work," observes Lamm. "The push is the businesspeople of Los Angeles saying, 'The workers' compensation system is prohibitive, I have to spend an hour on the freeway, and I can't attract good staff anymore because of the cost of housing.' And you've got the pull here, which is visitors saying...
...ALSO MEANS, LAMM ADMITS SADLY, that the shift is bound to come at the expense of California. "I think we are looking at some permanent dislocation. And it seems to me very difficult to recapture the golden age of California. A lot of people who once rushed to California are going to come here...
...politics of immigration has created strange alliances and oppositions. Liberal Democrat Eugene McCarthy and Conservative Democrat Richard Lamm favor restricting immigration, as does archconservative Republican Pat Buchanan. Polls by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a black think tank, found that African Americans are far more sympathetic than whites to the plight of Haitian refugees, but also far more worried than whites about competition from immigrants for jobs. In Florida's Dade County, where 60% of the residents are now Spanish-speaking, the county commission voted unanimously to repeal a 1980 ordinance making English the sole language...
...policy brings the U.S. in line with other nations, like Canada and Australia, that have long been luring the best and the brightest. "Virtually every other country reviews its immigrant applications based on skills," says former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm, co-author of The Immigration Time Bomb. "We're the only country in the world that brings in whole generations of poor people every year." The Federal Government estimates that investor visas will generate $10 billion over the next five years. That sum will only be raised if at least 3,000 investors enter the country each year...