"That won't fly here" - political attitudes to elections

[Vosem]

In the United States, to be elected to any significant position in a state, you not only have to live there, but you have to have lived there for some amount of time. Standards are pretty low - generally, if it looks like you'll probably win, you're allowed (Romney-Massachusetts 2002 and Clinton-New York 2000 are some prominent examples), but once you pick a state, you're basically stuck there. Recent attempts to switch states have provoked backlashes; the last successful incidence was Texas-New Mexico in the 1960s; the last between two states that didn't border that didn't border each other was in the early 1900s, though I forget details in both cases.

Even though it's legal, in the United States, living in one part of a state and running in another is frequently politically detrimental (though once you've been elected the effect usually goes away).