sundin13 said:
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). |
It is about the ICE arrests and border security too. California for example has a stagnating population while Texas is growing exponentially.
https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/states/texas/population
https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/states/california/population
California can't take anymore hits while Texas can spare it. That is why liberals want open borders. Texas will be safe because Trump won by a larger margin in 2024 than his previous runs. Blue states are more expensive to live in because of high taxes and anti business laws. All taxes do is take money from the middle class. Even the corporate taxes as well.
Poor people can't pay taxes because they don't have any money and rich people own most of the assets. Therefore, rich people will just raise the price of their product / services to make up for the increase in taxes.
