My wife and I also moved here from Eugene area. I am prayerful that the majority of those moving here from the blue states are as staunch red voters as you and I. Unfortunatley, I witnessed first hand what happened to Colorado when many moved there to escape the perils of there previous blue state.
I may be a bit jaded.
I agree Oklahoma is awesome. We picked it because of the political climate.
Prior to the late '60's, Colorado probably wasn't so bad. However, I think it was 1969 when they were forecasting the "BIG ONE" (earthquake) that would dump everything west of the San Andreas fault into the ocean. That is when the San Francisco (and maybe other city's) hippies took off for Boulder, CO and Denver.
Funny thing was that the citizens of SF held a big to-do on the projected date with the movie Earthquake being shown at a drive-in theater and lots of other entertainment and drinks. I just don't know if they did that to celebrate the hippies leaving or to just throw their attitude towards those that predicted the earthquake to begin with. That was a totally different San Francisco from what it is now.