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xboxgreen said:
Nope, miss the big picture. Everyone from liberal states are already moving to republican states like Texas and Florida to increase their electoral votes so it doesn't matter. However, Liberal states are already taking huge hits and lost electoral votes last time. Looks like it is going to be even worse next time around lol. |
Seems like you're just moving the goal posts now. Now it isn't about electoral college change because of ICE arrests but it's actually because of people moving within the US.
That's honestly a much more valid argument though. You should've started there.
People do move from high cost areas to lower cost areas, which does have an effect on Electoral College votes per state. That said, those people moving from blue States tend to move into blue cities in red states. I think if this trend continues, the rural portion of votes from states like Texas and Florida will decrease while the urban portion will increase, which also brings its own set of concerns for Republicans. There have been questions for years about whether Texas would become a swing state. Add a few million people from California and that starts to look a lot more likely, and once Texas becomes purple (or even blue), Republicans are going to have a lot to be concerned about nationally.
As for Cost of Living, we are already seeing a lot of red states making many of the same mistakes that led the big blue states to where they are today. The rate of housing growth in a lot of these booming areas like Atlanta, Dallas, Miami etc has rapidly declined and housing costs are spiking. It may not be long until the housing affordability crisis becomes the number one issue across the country (if it isn't already).
