As the political division between states becomes more pronounced, what political scientists call “ordination” may accelerate. Illinois Conservative billionaire Kenneth Griffin announced last week that he had moved to Miami from Chicago and would take Citadel, his hedge fund, with him. He told his employees that Florida offered a better corporate environment.
At the same time, Caprara said the Pritzker administration usually brags about the state’s welcoming political environment, where abortion rights are codified and companies will never find themselves in the position now held by Walt. Disney Company in Florida, compressed between a conservative government that limits. gay and transgender rights, and liberal consumers demanding business rejection.
“Companies don’t want to have to deal with people who boycott their business or who fight for people to move to them, especially younger workers,” he said.
Joanna Turner Bisgrove, 46, a family physician at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, had worked all her professional life in Oregon, Wisconsin, a small town south of Madison, when her hospital was bought by a health care chain. Catholicism, which began to restrict abortions and transgender care. After the Wisconsin legislature addressed the issue of transgender girls in sports, she said, her gender-fluid son and boy’s circle of friends became such bad school bullying magnets that he came to the local news.
Nearly a year ago, the Bisgroves finally moved across the red-blue border, to Evanston, Illinois, where, said Dr. Bisgrove, his children would be accepted and his medical practice could thrive.
“In the end,” he said, “my morale wouldn’t match what I could do.”