https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-dec-27-2019-1.5409103/canadian-citizenship-something-i-really-felt-i-had-to-fight-for-says-toronto-born-son-of-russian-spies-1.5409349

I don’t like Republicans being called red; on the other hand it brings to mind “red-blooded”, which I like.

New state census totals show population continuing to shift from the North and Midwest to the South and Southwest in ways that could help states that have voted Republican in recent years. …

Changes based on next year’s census will not affect the 2020 presidential election.

Based on Monday’s figures, Texas is poised to gain two congressional seats, while Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina and Oregon are each expected to gain one.

Eight states are likely to lose one seat: Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, West Virginia and California.

For those worried that the blues of the blue states is just shifting territory, this is a good sign:

https://www.foxnews.com/media/2020-election-texas-trump-california

The latest Census Bureau data shows that more than 86,000 California residents moved to Texas in 2018 alone and that’s raising the question of whether or not they are bringing their politics with them ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
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“On the one hand, the economy being good — you would think would benefit Republicans. On the other hand, if Texas, in particular, is really good and folks are coming from blue states to red, does that make Texas potentially more of a pickup target for Democrats in 2020?” she asked her guest Chris Wilson, a former Ted Cruz campaign pollster and CEO of WPA Intelligence.
Wilson said that is a phenomenon that he is watching very closely in his role as a pollster for Texas Governor Gregg Abbott.
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“What we find is that in that first election, they cast a vote in, yes, they tend to be a little more Democratic than they do Republican,” he continued. “But the next election, b>and as they vote more and more, they become more Republican… we do find that after three to four elections, as people move in the state, they are highly more likely to be Republican than they are Democrat.”

Wilson said he attributed some of that apparent effect to the increased standard of living that the new Texas residents may experience.

“You can imagine you could sell you’re a little bitty small home that’s jammed in the city in San Francisco and go buy a mega-mansion in Plano, Texas… and have lots of land and go to good schools and not have homeless people leaving hypodermic needles on your front porch. So all these things got to factor into creating a new cultural experience for people as they moved to Texas,” Wilson argued.
“So coming to Texas actually converts them to become Republican a little bit along the way?” joked Soltis Anderson.

“They see what good government can do in a governor like Abbott and Republican representation and a good economy,” Wilson concluded, “it’s amazing the conversion process.”

We can only hope he is right.
Some are born conservative (and leave the blue states as soon as they can);
some achieve conservatism (like the people Wilson notes);
but do any have conservatism thrust upon them?

I think this may have been the sort of thing I’m thinking about. A lot of Massachusetts residents moved to NH in recent decades and most people believe that was responsible for moving NH more to the blue side (it’s currently fairly purple). But it wasn’t the Massachusetts arrivals:

A 2006 University of New Hampshire survey found that New Hampshire residents who had moved to the state from Massachusetts were mostly Republican. The influx of new Republican voters from Massachusetts has resulted in Republican strongholds in the Boston exurban border towns of Hillsborough and Rockingham counties, while other areas have become increasingly Democratic. The study indicated that immigrants from states other than Massachusetts tended to lean Democratic.

Also, in NH it used to be that students there temporarily could vote there, and in a very small state like NH that can make a big difference. They recently passed a law that purports to make it a bit harder for students to vote there.

Maybe so, I guess I’m influenced by who moved into Washington. It was at first people coming for first wave tech companies like Microsoft and then in recent years it has been companies like Amazon. They were younger and almost uniformly Democrat voters and now they are the crazy ones with the pronouns and stuff not just a good old liberal. I’m not as well versed on other states but I think something similar has happened to Colorado and is happening in Texas now.

It’s also not just elections it’s cultural. It is amazing how many have no knowledge of the area (and no desire to learn) beyond a decade or two ago. So many fun traditional things have just been wiped from existence here in recent years.

Wow, I’m sounding old now.

It depends who comes to the state and why they come. I don’t have time to find it now, but I remember reading a study that said that in some states it has worked that way (turning the red state blue) and in some it has not had that effect because the new arrivals have come because they are more conservative than the state they left.

You can create your own interpretation, but the legal fact is that they are citizens if they are born here.

Indians are a separate case, because of tribal sovereignty.

Stay in your screwed up states I say.