Yeah it was NYers. Smh
Take ownership of your POS state
Be a man and not a bitch, looking for someone to point your fingers at out there besides yourselves.
That depends on ethnicity.
In 2012, in California, white voters supported Romney 53-45.
I can't find Trump's 2016 California numbers (behind a pay wall).
Politically, Texas has two problems.
At least 30% of registered voters are Hispanic.
And, a significant bloc of white Texas voters still favor Populist Democrats (LBJ) and center-left Republicans (John Connally).
I think you got the second paragraph sort of right.
The evolution of high tech did bring liberals to
the Silicon Valley. But the Bay Area was already thick
with liberals compared to much of California. I’m
a 4th generation Californian and for years the
Californians I have witnessed moving elsewhere leave
because many urbanites retire and moved to the nicer
rural areas of the the state. They brought their
liberalism with them and crowded out the more
conservative locals.
Those rural Californians who were not forced out by
retired urbanites and suburbanites didn’t want to deal
with the increasingly liberal state government with
more regulations and taxes so they split the state
for places like Idaho.
The increased taxes and regulations also drove businesses
away from California and states like Texas led by
Governor Ricky-boy recruited lots of businesses away.
I suspect that some of the liberalization of Texas
is the result of California liberals and liberals
from other states moving there with their companies.
The point here is that those who leave California are
not ALL liberals and that some of the problems in
Texas are self inflicted
It is not people fleeing CA-those that do are conservative for the most part and its a relatively small number. What is going on in Texas as it did in CA, Colorado, Nevada and elsewhere is the increasing demographic or ethnic block voting for Dems- fueled by the increasing Hispanic voters from illegals. Hispanics vote 70% for dems on average. The numbers are huge. Hispanic population was up 1.2 million last year according to Census and that probably understates illegals-and most of it Southwest states. It’s the main reason Cruz had a tighter race in Texas.
Just look at the states won by Trump,he won 32 states but only 4 have a population of Hispanic voters over 13%. Only 4. Clinton by contrast won 28 states and only 5 had a Hispanic population of under 13%.
Colorado is now over 20% Hispanic and now a dem state, Nevada over 29% and voting blue. I believe this is why the dems are for illegal immigration-it gets them votes and power.
That is the real story, and challenge for GOP. Without the block voting of African American’s (93% + for Dems+ and especially Hispanic Americans-approaching 70%,) CA would still be the state that elected Reagan governor and nationally the Dems would have a little over 100 seats and about 10-12 Senate seats. At Least Hispanics don’t vote 90% dems
In CA, the Hispanic Population is now about 40% (and yes fueled by illegal immigrants and higher birth rate )and African American 12%.
We need to address, I think Trump can and does, otherwise its like trying to win a basketball game where the other team gets to start with a 20 point lead so we cannot pretend we can win without Hispanics or fall for the “its just white liberals” myth or the entire country will be CA
As mentioned above the U.S. Hispanic population surged another 1.2 million last year and now is a record 59.9 million, according to newly released U.S. Census Bureau population estimates.
The percentage of Hispanics as part of the overall U.S. population also jumped to 18%. -tough to win when you get 5 million and they get 13 million.
Hispanic invasion killed Kali
Don’t blame New Yorkers
I think the % quintupled since Reagan inauguration
That's conventional wisdom but I'm not sure it's accurate.
Lots of people moving to southern red states are retirees who vote Rep.
Native Texans voted for native Texan Beto O'Rourke, transplants went for Ted Cruz, exit poll shows