Crow Bar,
The severe influx to Colorado happened in 1992, you watched the state slowly turn blue around the metro area.
Where there were conservatives once, the interlopers started to weasel their way into local, then state politics.
Boulder was once surprisingly conservative, behind the scenes and had one of the best shooting ranges in the state. And I used to know a bunch of “hippies” who had envious firearm collections.
We left right before it got stupid, almost 7 years ago now. It hasn’t gotten any better from what I hear.