There's an amusing but fairly throwaway article in today's LA Times about Americans who don't just threaten to move to Canada, but are seriously pursuing it.

Of course, most of these people are disgruntled progressives, rightly appalled at the direction of the US. This quote, however, took me very much by surprise:

Joan Griggs said she's tired of being surrounded by immigrants and wants to leave. "We'll go somewhere where we're the immigrants," she said.

Wow. White flight to the surburbs is old hat. And sure, there are the old farts who want to move to Iowa to get away from the Mexicans. Certainly, Southern California's old people have started retiring to lily Utah instead of the old favorite, Arizona. But moving to another, whiter country to get away from immigrants? While acknowledging (but apparently not caring about) the complete hypocrisy inherent in this decision?

It makes me wonder idly about what would happen if, as America gets browner (particularly from the southern borders on up), people really will just keep fleeing north. I suppose this will only work until they get far enough north to hit Eskimos.