leftugee

noun
/ˈlɛfjʊd͡ʒiː/

Etymology

Blend of left (political left, left-wing) + refugee.

  1. derived from refugium
  2. derived from refuge
  3. derived from réfugié
  4. compounded as leftugee — “left + refugee

Definitions

  1. One who leaves a liberal blue state to live in a conservative red state, (often) doing so…

    One who leaves a liberal blue state to live in a conservative red state, (often) doing so in favour of fewer regulations and lower taxes.

    • Just as a refugee resettles to escape hardship, a leftugee does so to flee the punitive financial environment created in their state by big government.
    • There's dispute over whether the newcomers will change state politics in the South, as they may have in North Carolina, which elected a Democratic governor in 2016, or are “leftugees” fleeing liberal policies who will embrace conservatism.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA