I got a chuckle after the 2004 presidential elections when droves of distraught Demos started applying for Canadian visas rather than live four more years under the oppressive rule of George W. Bush and the yahoos who re-elected him. I also took note, with some sympathy, of gay Virginia couples who talked of decamping to a state where they are more welcome rather than in a Commonwealth that considers them a threat to the institution of marriage. More.