The Southbound Train: Tales from the Great Blue State Exodus

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After decades in California, screenwriter, novelist, and columnist Roger L. Simon and his family joined the many who have left the increasingly leftist, woke blue states for red states.Simon calls those making this journeyAmerican Refugees, not dissimilar in their struggles and achievements,yearning to breathe free, to those who came from foreign lands in previous generationsFocusing on his new home of Tennessee, but dipping into other red states, the author chronicles the often surprising results of this mass migration over recent years for himself and others. When, contrary to predictions, the former blue-state refugees proved to be more reliably constitutionalist, more red, than a good number of red state residents and most of their political leaders, a near-fatal friction developed. In a compelling and sometimes humorous narrative that draws on his prize-winning novelist roots, Simon shows the way for these now two red state sidesthe newcomers and the old timers to unite and save the fast-disappearing American republic from within.

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ROGER L. SIMON is the author of thirteen books, including the prize-winningMoses Winedetective series. He has also been a Hollywood screenwriter and is the author of seven feature films, including the adaptation of his own novelThe Big Fix, starring Richard Dreyfuss, and the adaption of Isaac Bashevis SingersEnemies, A Love Story, for which Simon was nominated for an Academy Award. As a journalist he is the co-founder of the pioneering opinion site PJ Media and is currently the editor-at-large of theEpoch Timesfor which he writes a column. Simon has also written for theNew York Times,National Review,Washington Post,Wall Street Journal,City Journal,andReal Clear Politics, among many others. He appears frequently on talk radio and cable news. He has been the president of PEN West and on the Board of Directors of the Writers Guild of America. For years a resident of Los Angeles, these days he lives in Nashville with his wife, screenwriter Sheryl Longin.