States like VA and OH and IN used to be bulwarks against the Blue Tide flooding out of the Northeast. We see those being breached now. It started in ‘08 when IN went down, as well as VA and OH. We got IN back in ‘12 but things will be difficult if we don’t do something to get back the formerly reliable states, OH, VA, NC, and FL. We lose those, we’re done for.
Almost everyone I know, or know of, who lives in the NE wants out. If only those who created the mess would stay. But they don’t. They move to VA/NC/TN, etc and then complain that it’s not like “home.” SO they vote in those pols who will make their new homes like the ones they fled. Go figure.