San Francisco realizes its red-state boycott only hurts itself

Published February 20, 2023 2:53pm ET



San Francisco has suddenly discovered that its brave boycott of red-state contractors is doing nothing but harming its own residents.

In 2016, San Francisco enacted a city ordinance that would ban city travel to and business with red states that are not sufficiently liberal on abortion or do not subscribe to fringe left-wing social justice theories about race and sexuality. In 2017, eight U.S. states were on San Francisco’s blacklist, but that number has now risen to 30.

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