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>I know many people in places like Austin and Boise are very nervous about the types of people moving in and not picking up on local values. This sounds like k
by mikrl 4y ago
>I know many people in places like Austin and Boise are very nervous about the types of people moving in and not picking up on local values.
This sounds like knee jerk nativism. How many people would it take to move and overwhelm an entire city’s culture? Let’s assume a plurality of 30% could do it. I think a wave of people of that size is going to cause problems whatever their political beliefs are.
- nemo44x 4y agoAustin saw a 33% increase in the decade ending in 2020 (after 38% the previous decade) and it hasn’t let up. Around 8% of Austin’s residents lived somewhere else the previous year.
- leetcrew 4y agoit would take a lot of people to change the "culture" overnight. likely a prohibitively large number, as you said. but it doesn't take so many newcomers to significantly change political outcomes. even in red states, republican mayors are pretty rare. in practice, this means that the mayoral race is almost always determined by an n-way democratic primary. it's hard to overstate how chaotic this can be. for example, the current mayor of baltimore won the 2020 primary (effectively the general election) with <30% of the vote, with the runner up trailing by only 2%. this was an election where ~25% of the population cast a vote. it would have taken <4000 votes to completely change that outcome.