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Demographics are shifting in this country due to migration and diversity. Virginia is a new battleground state. From the results of this election and 2008's, it looks like it's a new trend in Virginia.
I think Texas and Georgia will become swing states by 2020.
Demographics are shifting in this country due to migration and diversity. Virginia is a new battleground state. From the results of this election and 2008's, it looks like it's a new trend in Virginia.
I think Texas and Georgia will become swing states by 2020.
Arizona will probably start to swing before either of those states.
Joe Arpaio gets re-elected despite his stance on immigration.
Because Obama has performed much better in Arizona than Texas, and Arizona is growing much faster in the latino demographic than Georgia.
Arpaio is a sheriff in one county in Arizona. What does that have to do with Arizona as a whole compared to Gerogia and Texas? Nothing at all, that's what.
Just look at any state with a growing minority population.
-Arizona
-Georgia
-North Carolina
-Texas (maybe in 20 years of so)
-Virginia
-Plains states are also seeing a huge increase in the latino demographic particularly because all the meat packing facilities in states like Nebraska and Iowa.
I don't think they will become swing states. They're just gonna make permanent transitions from red to blue.
This country is becoming more liberal. The GOP needs to deal with this.
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