Nowadays, I live among immigrants and refugees.
They come seeking a place where they are free from tyrannical governments, where their businesses and money are safe from destruction and confiscation, where they and their families feel safe and included.
Moving here may have been difficult, and finding a place to live can be challenging.
But they feel the sacrifice is worth it for a better life.
No, these aren’t illegal immigrants (or “migrants” as we’re told to call them nowadays) from Guatemala, Mexico or Venezuela.
They are, in the title of Roger Simon’s new book on this migration, “American Refugees.”
They’re part of the great mass migration away from blue states (especially, but not exclusively, New York, California and Illinois) in favor of red states where taxes are lower, intrusive government bureaucracy is less and political violence is uncommon.
Knoxville, where I live, is getting a lot of them.