Exodus

[Jolly]

https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/the-blue-state-exodus-should-scare

[jon-nyc]

Weird cherry picking on time they had to do given the three blue states they target all grew last year.

[Jolly]

Do you think their math is off on congressional seats?

[taiwan_girl]

These projections, of course, might shift over the next few years. The roster of swing states could change too. Nothing is set in stone.

What is that the comedian said - that place is becoming so popular, nobody wants to go there anymore. LOL

I think Florida population will stop increasing very soon. Super high home insurance rates, banks not providing mortgages on condos, etc. (though of course if the people from Canada stop coming to Florida, maybe property prices will not go up so much.)

[Doctor Phibes]

If a ton of people move from blue states to red states isn't it possible the red states will become blue states, or at least a bit purple?

All the Liberal Patriot articles I see read more like wishful thinking than real analysis.

[Jolly]

Florida has gotten redder. Seems like 20% of California moved to Texas and I don't consider it purple. Same thing in Tennessee.

States that I do think have gotten more purple in the last decade or so are North Carolina and Arizona.

[jon-nyc]

I think the Texas going purple thesis was based on assumptions about Hispanic voters that are no longer valid.

[89th]

There’s a reason Trump doesn’t actually want Canada as a 51st state. It would give the democrats 2 more senate seats, 52 representatives, and 54 presidential electoral votes. The republicans wouldn’t see power in any branch for 100 years.

[Jolly]

You're assuming a monolithically political Canada. I don't think that is the case

[89th]

Yeah maybe if they split it into the 18 provinces and territories. Even then I think it would be an influx of democrat electoral power that the GOP would prefer not to have. Unless maybe there are a bunch of conservative polar bears in Greenland to help offset.

[taiwan_girl]

I think one of the best things that could be done to move things towards the center is to have realistic districts for Congress.

They way they are draw now allows the outside edges of the parties to get candidates elected because there is no competition.

[jon-nyc]

We could solve so many of the country’s problems by diminishing party influence in Congress

Or at least put ourselves in a position to solve them.

[Copper]

You probably don't want long-term laws for a short-term problem.

For example, the dems effort to pack the Supreme Court.

The tide will turn when the voters want it to turn, as it should be.

And there is NO WAY! we want a nice homogenized electorate where everyone agrees.

The critics are essential, even if they are stupid jerks.