Florida is still going through huge population growth, largely due to people fleeing blue states and their blue policies. These newcomers, while realizing their previous homes have become uninhabitable, will still vote Dem because "It's different here" or "real communism has never been tried" or some other such bullshit.
We're not seeing this, and this corresponds to the kind of thing that Thomas Sowell pointed out in Immigrations And Cultures.
People are from a specific time, and a specific place. They take that place with them when they go somewhere else. What is being taken with these people fleeing Florida is conservative values. Dem voters aren't fleeing to Rep states. They like living in the shit, and are proud they don't live in other places. Where we've seen Blue migration, it was basically intentional mass migration from California to create colonies in Red urban areas. That's a whole different concept.
Florida, like Texas, is poised to go purple if not full blue.
Both of these are false. In fact, Florida isn't just not going purple, every bit of signaling is that it is going to be staunch red state, and is likely to stay that way. Same with Texas. Mass migration from other countries, even at the Level that Texas has, hasn't managed to flip the state due to diminishing returns on colonization. Texas isn't going purple, it's getting Redder.
The political map is changing, but not to only blue everywhere. Florida, Texas, and Ohio are turning Redder. New Hampshire is turning Bluer. It looks like Clinton's "Blue Wall" are all now swing states, and even Minnesota is looking more swing, rather than reliable Blue. Also, Virginia and North Carolina also seem to be more swing, rather than reliable Red. Georgia actually seems to be becoming a complete lost cause for the Dems as bad as Florida is. New York state might even turn Red in the next 10 years if the Trump strategy of recruiting urban voters continues to work.
We're not seeing this, and this corresponds to the kind of thing that Thomas Sowell pointed out in Immigrations And Cultures.
People are from a specific time, and a specific place. They take that place with them when they go somewhere else. What is being taken with these people fleeing Florida is conservative values. Dem voters aren't fleeing to Rep states. They like living in the shit, and are proud they don't live in other places. Where we've seen Blue migration, it was basically intentional mass migration from California to create colonies in Red urban areas. That's a whole different concept.
Both of these are false. In fact, Florida isn't just not going purple, every bit of signaling is that it is going to be staunch red state, and is likely to stay that way. Same with Texas. Mass migration from other countries, even at the Level that Texas has, hasn't managed to flip the state due to diminishing returns on colonization. Texas isn't going purple, it's getting Redder.
The political map is changing, but not to only blue everywhere. Florida, Texas, and Ohio are turning Redder. New Hampshire is turning Bluer. It looks like Clinton's "Blue Wall" are all now swing states, and even Minnesota is looking more swing, rather than reliable Blue. Also, Virginia and North Carolina also seem to be more swing, rather than reliable Red. Georgia actually seems to be becoming a complete lost cause for the Dems as bad as Florida is. New York state might even turn Red in the next 10 years if the Trump strategy of recruiting urban voters continues to work.