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California is diverse and populous. There are enough far right voters in California that if they were to migrate en masse they would totally overwhelm their de
by ebikelaw 9y ago
California is diverse and populous. There are enough far right voters in California that if they were to migrate en masse they would totally overwhelm their destination. They're also more likely to migrate, being the most irked by California's current one-party government. As a personal anecdote I happen to know a small businessman who moved from Fremont, California, to Oregon because those gosh darn overbearing regulators in Fremont wanted his employees to stop being severely injured. That's your basic right-wing migrant in a nutshell.
But anyway, just remember that population is very important. You might think New York is liberal but there are more Trump voters in New York City than there are total voters in Alabama.
- hueving 9y ago>because those gosh darn overbearing regulators in Fremont wanted his employees to stop being severely injured. That's your basic right-wing migrant in a nutshell. Lazy strawman
- whack 9y ago> there are more Trump voters in New York City than there are total voters in Alabama. I agree with your general point, but the above seems grossly inaccurate. NYC had ~500k Trump voters, whereas Alabama had 1.3M Trump voters and ~2M voters in total. https://www.amny.com/news/elections/nyc-voter-turnout-was-55-98-percent-board-of-elections-says-1.12594476 https://www.amny.com/news/elections/nyc-voter-turnout-was-55... https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/numbers/clinton-trump-president-vice-president-every-neighborhood-map-election-results-voting-general-primary-nyc/ https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/numbers/clinton-trump-presi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_in_Alabama,_2016 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...
- ebikelaw 9y agoYup you are right. I did not mean to say "New York City" in the second case, I meant to just say "New York" the state, in which 2.8M people voted for Trump.
- CydeWeys 9y agoWhat's the point of the comparison though? New York state has over 4X the population of Alabama, and the rural areas of NY are just as you'd expect them to be.