Ah, but here’s the problem. Over time, red states are turning reliably blue. But blue states aren’t turning reliably red.
As CCR said, “I see the bad moon rising. I see trouble on the way.”
I don’t think your assumption is correct at least not in Florida, for the first time in Florida History, Republicans outnumber Democrats in Registered Voters......
I agree that Red States are getting more red and the reverse is happening in Blue States...
The problem is many people will be leaving California and New York, not because they don’t like it, but because there are no jobs.
Ohio was purple but has become pretty solid red. Perhaps Florida as well.
Is that why we have more red states and governors/state legislatures than blue ones?
And even Latino majority districts/towns in Texas/Florida are now voting Republican?
Happily, I think the data disagrees with you.
Blue staters having been moving to Florida for decades. Florida remains red and was even more red in 2020 than it was in 2000 for example.
Naah. The population in many states has changed
States that have gone from blue to red: Most all of the south, NH, OH, WV.
States that have gone red to blue: CA, all the northeast except NH and maybe ME, WA and OR.
States that keep flip-flopping: AZ, NM, CO, GA, and VA.
If you look at California’s example, the conversion to one party rule has depended on massive demographic replacement, rather than any big changes in the political philosophy of the original population.
This current wave of internal migration needs to be taken seriously, but just looking at their actions, the Brandon administration threw open the southern border for a reason. One might be able to infer that they believe that they need millions of foreign-born illegal aliens to finally flip the Red states reliably into the blue column.
Style is also a factor. Newcomers 50 years ago didn't like good old boy politics, so they became Republicans. Now the good old boy politicians are likely to be Republicans, and the newcomers gravitate to the Democrats.