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Louisiana has never really been a "blue" state. Don't forget Louisiana was the state where David Duke ran for governor and got 38% of the vote (55% of the white vote in LA according to exit polls)
I beg to differ, at least for the state that I live in. Most of NY and NJ transplants are doing all they can to replicate their state here, which isn't really a paradise to begin with.
why couldn't my state have Californian transplants instead?
Probably for many of the same reasons that this particular Wash DC native left there in 1978 for Calif then Az
Louisiana has never really been a "blue" state. Don't forget Louisiana was the state where David Duke ran for governor and got 38% of the vote (55% of the white vote in LA according to exit polls)
It really isn't a red state, either. They pick and choose so many different candidates from different parties, and the democrats down there are so old-school that you can't tell anything. The only state that can elect a white woman from an old political family, before an Indian republican, after Edwards....ahhh Edwards. I even have fun wathcing it from the other side of the Mississippi. The biggest factor is the difference between south and north in Louisiana. Shreveport is in a different country from New Orleans. I think they should have a special political color for Louisiana -- Gold.
It really isn't a red state, either. They pick and choose so many different candidates from different parties, and the democrats down there are so old-school that you can't tell anything. The only state that can elect a white woman from an old political family, before an Indian republican, after Edwards....ahhh Edwards. I even have fun wathcing it from the other side of the Mississippi. The biggest factor is the difference between south and north in Louisiana. Shreveport is in a different country from New Orleans. I think they should have a special political color for Louisiana -- Gold.
That is true, New Orleans is a Catholic, ethnic city, which is an anomoly for a Southern city, and South Louisiana has its roots in French and Spanish colonization vs. the Protestant/Anglo Saxon traditions of the North end of the state.. North Louisiana might as well be East Texas/West Mississippi because it is SO different from South Louisiana.
Atlanta is very very liberal and it is the capital of GA, and there are not too many other large cities in the state, and its growing, so rapidly that they can't seem to keep up with the demand for housing and etc. I think that this state, in my humble opinion, will be blue, but then afterwhile, people will then turn against liberalism and become liberterians, one can always hope!
Yeah but Atlanta is only 775K people, the other 2.2 million live outside, mainly metro Atlanta, and are all Conservative.
Only liberal areas: Fulton County(Atlanta), Dekalb County
Anyway, this thread has been going quite awhile! In that time though, my assessment really hasn't changed: Virginia will be the first to turn blue, due to the spillover influence of Washington D.C.
And supposedly, the Virginia 'burbs are even the more conservative part of the D.C. metro area, as opposed to Maryland!
But what you've got beyond "red" and "blue" is a clash of cultures: urban, uptight, East Coast vs. rural, laid-back Old South. At one time, even Maryland was mostly part of the latter.
Highly doubtful any of the other Southern states will switch soon; least of all Tennessee. The state in which Al Gore (barely) lived is now better known as the home of Fred Dalton Thompson.
Florida, of course, is a wild card. But IMO it's really not even "Southern" and hasn't been for the last 40 years.
Thye are all going to become (and already are becoming) more urbanized and less "Southern". Over time this will generally lead to a far less homogenous polity.
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