If you let them...I guess that is the key statement. I see this sentiment quite a bit, and have seen it on FR for a few years-and I find it a bit disconcerting. Are red states so politically fragile, uncohesive, or unaggressive (politically speaking) that libs coming from other states going to topple them?
Are conservatives in those red politically inferior or so unpolished or unconnected in some way so that when some aggressive liberal moves to the state and runs for office they can beat out conservative candidates easily?
I don't understand the dynamic. I would think that in the red states that are well established, they have been able to overcome native liberal candidates (all states have them, even Texas and Georgia) but if someone comes in from out of state, they can win election?
Or are voting blocks in red states so close politically speaking that a few thousand here or there are enough to swing the pendulum? I have heard it said that at a national level, a few hundred thousand votes correctly applied could swing the election...is that the case in red states?
They want it both ways..."Don't mess with Texas" for example. And yet half of what ya hear down there is, "CA is turning us blue, we're doomed...help us"....lol
You ask great questions and people smarter than me can probably answer them. One thing about libs: they play a long game. They can wait 30-50 years to take over a state, a university, a town, etc. They don’t mind waiting. I think we conservatives don’t play that way. We bowed out of the culture (films, theater, tv, art) when the going got tough for us. We certainly allowed the libs to take over a lot of the churches and the communists to take over my own church (Catholic)! Why did we? As someone else said here, maybe we don’t love freedom as much as we think we do?