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Perhaps. I guess it depends on the reasons they left Blue for Red to begin with? Perhaps liberal policies have pushed them out? Perhaps taxes and corruption that often plague Big Blue Cities pushed them out? Perhaps they'd rather BE the change they want to see and ultimately pull the lever for more fiscally conservative candidates? We'll never know. Right now there's zero evidence that i've seen to suggest that the Red States are anywhere near ceding conservative power to liberal migrants.
Maybe you just missed the fact that Virginia and North Carolina both went to President Obama in the 2008 Presidential Elections.
The last time North Carolina went to a Democratic Presidential nominee was 1976.
The last time Virgina went to a Democrotric Presidential nominee was 1964.
The Census story is a shocker. First, according to the Times, the Blacks leaving tend to be the “younger and better educated”. Second, the three states Blacks left in largest numbers don’t just include snake-bit Michigan; the other two are Illinois and New York. Within those states, Chicago and the city of the New York (widely considered among the most successful cities in the country) are the places Blacks are deserting. 17 percent of the Black flight from Big Blue is from the Empire State; after almost a century of trailblazing social policy, New York State has succeeded in creating the most hostile environment for Blacks in the country.
American blacks are becoming more educated in how racist the white liberal Democrats really are and, like any intelligent being, are abandoning ship. They're going back to their roots, moving back home to the red state Bible belt South where the races are more integrated and racism is more easily identified.
Black people aren't stupid, they know they aren't welcome in places like the North East where they cry about racial tolerance while telling their minority "helpers" to make sure they use the back door and side driveway.
Perhaps. I guess it depends on the reasons they left Blue for Red to begin with? Perhaps liberal policies have pushed them out? Perhaps taxes and corruption that often plague Big Blue Cities pushed them out? Perhaps they'd rather BE the change they want to see and ultimately pull the lever for more fiscally conservative candidates? We'll never know. Right now there's zero evidence that i've seen to suggest that the Red States are anywhere near ceding conservative power to liberal migrants.
Yea, but we aint about to start joining the Republican Party in any real numbers. Don't get your hopes up.
You're so naive, it's touching
You really think 90% of Blacks will vote Dems for eternity ? Really ? Each year more of them can think, have different point of views.It's a new era, it's democracy
20 years ago liberals couldn't imagine Blacks leaving to red states, now you can see that massively.Maybe 20 years in the future 30% of Blacks will vote GOP ?
The Republican Party struggles just to get 10% of the Black vote, do you really think they would get 30% of that voting demographic in the future. That is a pipe dream.
The Republican Party struggles just to get 10% of the Black vote, do you really think they would get 30% of that voting demographic in the future. That is a pipe dream.
And they won't be getting even THAT 10% in the furture. At least not from what i can see.
They run to the more tax friendly and smaller budget woe states.
But if they bring their left leanings and votes then those more stable states will also end up like the bloated, near bankrupt states they just left.
Do they even realize this though is the question.
I see transplants to Texas crying and whining about how we don't spend money here and the lack of mass transit and other social services.
Do these people not realize that what they ran away from they now want here in Texas ?
Do they not realize you cannot spend what you don't have ?
Traditionally Black Americans have been less mobile than their white counterparts. After the 2000 Census, there was a report that while a white person would move at least a dozen times on average during their lifetimes, blacks were likely to complete less than 5 moves. In general, the top reasons for moving have always been job opportunities or family. Initially, blacks and whites moved North and West during two "Great Migrations" (which, although usually attributed to blacks, generally saw poor whites move as well). The Southern economy was depressed continuously from 1865 through the 1950s.
Now that most jobs are now in the South, all demographics have increased mobility. However, now that the housing boom is over I suspect this trend has at least temporarily halted. People go where the jobs and opportunity are. It is nothing new (ever heard of a gold rush?).
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