Conservative influencer reveals why she is LEAVING Texas to return to liberal California
Blaire White, 31, fled her Hollywood home in 2021 amid rising homelessness and the state's tyrannical Covid policies to move to Austin, Texas.
However, she announced this week that she's ready to return to California after spending the last four years in Austin.
Addressing the major life change in a YouTube video, the transgender social media star shared her surprising reason behind the shock relocation.
'I was born there, so it is home for better or for worse,' Chico-born Blaire said.
'There are a lot of problems with California and a lot of people like to write off New York and California and say, "Just let them go overboard, let them burn," and I find that to be a very un-American perspective to hold,' she continued.
'California in my opinion is the most beautiful place in the world. Yes, I said the world,' she added.
'And it's even more of a shame because of that that it's run by demons.'
While Blaire said that Los Angeles has now become 'ghetto and downtrodden,' she explained that she wants to return to the City of Angels to help improve it.
'I want to be someone who's part of the solution. I want to be someone who doesn't run from problems,' she insisted.
'I moved to Texas in the middle of Covid. So I moved to Texas in crisis. The lockdowns weren't ending, so much trauma from that, so much craziness, so it was kind of like an evacuation,' she continued.
The YouTube star said that she's also eyeing a run for political office in the future and is excited to add her voice to California politics as a political commentator.
Blaire is one of the most popular political influencers online and has previously appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience, Infowars with Alex Jones, Dr. Phil and more.
She's not the first social media star to return to California after moving to Texas either.
Shortly after Joe Rogan relocated to Austin in 2020, comedian Tim Dillon quickly followed.
However, within just a few months Dillon ditched the red state to return home to Hollywood.
'It's a horrible city without a soul,' he told fellow comedian Whitney Cummings when describing his stint in Austin.
'It's not the live music capital of America. It's three heroin addicts busking with guitars. There's zero talent here in any capacity,' he continued.
'There's three restaurants that are good and I've been to all of them twice.'
In another interview with the American Redact podcast, he said that Austin 'can't be compared to New York and Los Angeles.'
In recent years, many people have left New York and California for Las Vegas, Florida, Texas, and Montana, citing high crime rates and taxes in their home states for the move.
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