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It's mostly anecdotes, but the lede is in the 2nd to last paragraph: "The larger population may prefer to move—on those rare occasions when it does move—to a r
by pchristensen 3y ago
It's mostly anecdotes, but the lede is in the 2nd to last paragraph:
"The larger population may prefer to move—on those rare occasions when it does move—to a red state, but the college-educated minority, which moves much more frequently, prefers relocating to a blue state. There are 10 states that import more college graduates than they export, and all of them except Texas are blue. (I’m counting Georgia, which is one of the 10, as a blue state because it went for Joe Biden in 2020.) Indeed, the three states logging the largest net population losses overall — New York, California, and Illinois — are simultaneously logging the largest net gains of college graduates."
But without absolute or per capita numbers, it's hard to gauge this.
- bryanrasmussen 3y agoI think counting Georgia as blue based on one election is a bit premature, but sure.
- rjbwork 3y agoI live here. The fact that we elected two dem senators, one in a runoff, is indicative of a shift to me. We'll definitely see how 2024 goes, but at the very least we're very purple for the first time in a long time.
- ubertaco 3y agoI mean, once you're past Cobb and north Fulton to the north, and down by McDonough or so to the south, you're back in red country all the way until Savannah. Yes, there's a "people vote, not land" thing in play there, but we're purple _in aggregate_, and even then only barely. I wish this weren't the case, but I think it's less due to a blue shift and more indicative of the factional split between the Kemp (or older, Deal) type of Republicans who just vote for the good ol' boys they recognize and the MAGA wing (that has eaten the whole party in most of the country), with a sprinkling of confused "middle of the red" Repubs who don't think they can trust voting anymore at all. I'll take the effect it has, sure, but I don't think we get to hang a "Mission Accomplished" banner until more than 10 years out.
- kagakuninja 3y agoCalifornia is also like that, probably all states are. Outside the major metropolitan areas like the Bay Area, it becomes MAGA territory.