What's up with all the NATIVE bumper stickers in Colorado

"hurricin katrina was a natural cleansing of the city" - Pastor jim

Transplant wrote:

Do the Native bumper stickers mean that they are making a statement about the transplants in CO? I overheard a lady say she wished that CO would have a natural disaster like the hurricanes and fires in other states so that some people would leave this state.... do any other states have a Native bumper sticker?? Just feel like transplants aren't welcomed here anymore.

Apache, Arapaho, Comanche etc?

The motivation is similar to that of the anti-immigrant crowd: "Why should people who weren't clever enough to be born here...get to live here?"

These stickers are posted by people whose greatest achievement (lifetime) was being born. It's like they use the stickers to *advertise* their loserdom.

I live in Colorado and am not native. Native people here tend to think that they are better than non natives and insist that you aren't native that you shouldn't have an opinion on anything Colorado related. The best part about this is that the fattest/ laziest people I have met in living here are Natives, they also tend to complain how much they hate Colorado the most, I will NEVER understand it. The people that make Colorado awesome are the people that move here to train and appreciate the state.

They're secretly identifying as douche bags.

I am not native either but have lived in CO for almost twenty years. Colorado has always been a gathering place for transplants. However, in the past majority of transplants came in their early twenties, adopted a work for the weekend lifestyle and became part of the community. I.e, ski Abasin, root for the Broncos, maybe buy a hunting shack up in the mountains for a someday project.

Now, hordes of forty and fifty somethings from all over the US are buying douchebag townhomes in Stapleton, flooding Coors Field to cheer for the Cubs, and telecommuting to work for some company that has absolutely nothing to do with Colorado.

The recent front range populution surge and explosion in home prices really hasn't done anything for most long term residents other than make traffic ridiculous and pretty much everything more expensive while wages have remained flat.

Also, I'm pretty sure Adam Goucher and Emma Coburn would disagree with the poster who says native born Coloradoans are fat and lazy.

NATIVE bumper stickers aren't unique to Colorado. They aren't that cleaver.

Their romanticizing of life without you is jealousy. You've come in and made a better life than they were capable of doing. It's the usual victim complex in this country.

Same thing that is up with all the MAGA hats. Douchebags whose greatest achievement in life was being born somewhere nice.

Wah, MAGA, get over it dude. As far as Colorado natives are concerned, just be happy you live in a place that is interesting enough to live in. Sorry the traffic sucks!

So Colorado is populated by fat & lazy natives & douchebag from Chicago land. Sounds like a crappy state.

For a long time Colorado was the best kept secret. Heck, we voted down the Olympics because we didn't want the publicity and growth

The problem with transplants is the either are loud mouth east coasters or dippy west coasters. Both types spoiled their parts of the country and came to ruin CO. The comparison to immigrants is stupid. Most transplants - at least in the old days weren't coming here for opportunities.

Plus they claim they "love" Colorado but can't live more than 10 miles on either side of the front range and never visit any other part of the state.

Most have never been east of the airport. (Not that it's all that great.) but dammit it's still part of the state. Plus they can't drive at all.

sdfaag wrote:

The motivation is similar to that of the anti-immigrant crowd: "Why should people who weren't clever enough to be born here...get to live here?"

These stickers are posted by people whose greatest achievement (lifetime) was being born. It's like they use the stickers to *advertise* their loserdom.

Nope, they just want the east coast types out. You're over-complicating it.

But why would east coast types and Cali folks want to leave those states?