Rural Missouri towns hit by 'crazy' spikes in housing prices, hurting longtime residents

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5. Sounds like they want to be with white people

Craig Yoder, who was there with his two sisters and their husbands, said they wield substantial buying power here.

"We have three good incomes and three properties that we can sell in California," Yoder said. "I own my house outright. So it's pure profit and the prices have gone crazy."

Yoder, who like his sisters is approaching retirement age, said that California had become too expensive and, for them, too liberal. His brother-in-law, Robert Velasquez, said they’re joining an exodus out of the Golden State.

“Arizona, Nevada, but everybody right now that's leaving California is influxing those nearby states that are more conservative, even as far east as Texas,” Velasquez said. “So we're thinking, okay, we're getting a little bit further out.”