Blue States Sinking

By Betsy McCaughey on 3.27.13 @ 6:09AM

Someone should remind the RNC that red states are on the rise.

Last week the national Republican Party issued a report on why it lost the 2012 presidential election. The report belongs in the paper shredder. Look at a map of the U.S. and you’ll see why. The Republican Party is already on the way to dominating presidential politics. Red states are on the rise, and blue states are sinking.

In politics, demography is destiny. The biggest mistake the GOP could make is to change course and abandon its current policies. It will soon control an electoral college majority.

Americans are voting with their feet to live in Republican-run states with low taxes, pro-business environments, and job-producing fossil-fuel production. This migration will produce a huge gain for the GOP in congressional seats and electoral college votes. The U.S. Census shows that from 2000 to 2010, Americans fled Democratic-controlled states on the East Coast, the West Coast, and the Great Lakes region to make their homes in Republican-controlled states with pro-growth policies.

The population shift continues. Democratic states are shrinking , and Republican states are gaining population. The biggest population losers are New York, California, and Illinois. The eight states where the most Americans are choosing to relocate are Florida, Texas, Arizona, North Carolina, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, and Tennessee — all states with Republican governors.

Chief Executive magazine gave every one of these rapidly growing states a high grade for business-friendly policies, and labeled Massachusetts, Illinois, New York, and California the states with the worst business policies. But it doesn’t take an economist to figure it where the opportunities are. Over the last decade, Americans figured it out for themselves, uprooted their families and moved to red states.

The Southeast, the Gulf Coast, the Rocky Mountain states and the Great Plains are what Joel Kotkin of the Manhattan Institute calls “pro-growth corridors.” Right now these four pro-growth areas make up only 30 percent of the nation’s population, but that figure will rise rapidly.

Newcomers to the U.S. are also flocking to these pro-growth regions. Republicans should take note of this before recklessly concluding, as last week’s report does, that the GOP needs to change its message to immigrants. The pro-business messaging of the Republican governors is not keeping immigrants away. Between 2000 and 2010, the foreign-born populations of Charlotte and Nashville doubled, according to Kotkin, and the foreign-born populations of Tampa and Atlanta increased 50 percent.

The evidence is even stronger that the GOP should not tamper with its pro-fossil fuel energy policy. It’s a winner. Americans are moving in droves to fossil-fuel producing states. In contrast, California, which refuses to develop its gas and oil reserves, and New York, which foolishly delays fracking to create jobs in its impoverished upstate counties, are losing population and will lose congressional seats and electoral votes in 2020.

Americans want growth. They know Republican governors — now presiding in 30 out of the 50 state capitals — are making it happen. Sadly, the GOP bosses behind the 2012 presidential campaign didn’t stress how these same policies could restore growth on a national level. Or if they did, the message got lost.

Worse, last week’s report gave economic growth the cold shoulder and whined about CEOs making too much money. Reagan’s policies, the report suggested, are thirty years old and therefore out of date. How ridiculous. Low tax, small government policies are behind the current red-state boom.

Shockingly, last week’s post mortem also never mentioned the Constitution! Defending the Constitution and personal liberty against government intrusion is the GOP’s core mission.

Worst of all, last week’s report suggested that to attract minority voters, the GOP should hire Hispanic and African-American communications directors for each state. Wrong again. The Democratic Party is about hiring quotas. The GOP stands for color-blind fairness — hiring people and voting for people based on content of their character, not the color of their skin.

Next time the GOP wants to know about winning, ask the winners — the Republican governors. They are presiding over the rise of the Republican Party.

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http://spectator.org/archives/2013/03/27/blue-states-sinking

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In politics, demography is destiny. The biggest mistake the GOP could make is to change course and abandon its current policies. It will soon control an electoral college majority.

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Makes sense to me. Yeah!

"Next time the GOP wants to know about winning, ask the winners — the Republican governors. They are presiding over the rise of the Republican Party."

In a nutshell, yes! Gov Walker taking on the Dem/Union machine in Michigan speaks volumes to how vulnerable and out of balance the labor "Jabbas" are.

But waiting for a census change and 2020 seems like a loser. Why wait? The proof is all around us at the present time. We need an articulator to bring the American dream back into focus.

This culture war is a huge fad. I mean a great country isn't made even greater by giving gay people access to marriage. This Country has its head up there so far it can't find common sense anymore. The bully role has shifted to those people with the = sign. They are the oppressors now. They are the haters now. America needs to wake up and get its mind and vision out of the bedroom. That's not what will make us great. It's a fad! and it will fade.

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"Next time the GOP wants to know about winning, ask the winners — the Republican governors. They are presiding over the rise of the Republican Party."

In a nutshell, yes! Gov Walker taking on the Dem/Union machine in Michigan speaks volumes to how vulnerable and out of balance the labor "Jabbas" are.

But waiting for a census change and 2020 seems like a loser. Why wait? The proof is all around us at the present time. We need an articulator to bring the American dream back into focus.

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Quote: Frank Cannon wrote in post #2

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In politics, demography is destiny. The biggest mistake the GOP could make is to change course and abandon its current policies. It will soon control an electoral college majority.

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Makes sense to me. Yeah!

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But Frank, there is a flaw. in the logic.

Who is having children? Who is letting the millions of crim-aliens become voters?

So Ma and Pa take the two kids and move to a red state. Whoop - Ti - Dooo! and La - Ti - Dah!

Meanwhile the federally funded rabbit breeders are more than making up for their vacancy.

By 2020 the unsubsidized worker will be a minority citizen. It's already a fact in so many cities right now!

I dont think the moves out of those states are political. Its because people cant afford to live in them. I am in NY. The prices and taxes here are outrageous and they keep going up.

If I lived in some other state (other than CA), I could have 3 times the size house, probably paying 3 times less in taxes. We bought our house 35 years ago. I am an hour north of NYC. I moved here, because we couldnt afford to buy something in the county I was raised in. When we bought this house, our property tax was $700. Its $8000 now.

With the economy and the prices here, young people cant afford homes..even when they both work. Seniors can make their retirement funds stretch further, elsewhere. I think this is why people are leaving this state. Not because of politics.

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Quote: Frank Cannon wrote in post #2

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In politics, demography is destiny. The biggest mistake the GOP could make is to change course and abandon its current policies. It will soon control an electoral college majority.

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Makes sense to me. Yeah!

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But Frank, there is a flaw. in the logic.

Who is having children? Who is letting the millions of crim-aliens become voters?

So Ma and Pa take the two kids and move to a red state. Whoop - Ti - Dooo! and La - Ti - Dah!

Meanwhile the federally funded rabbit breeders are more than making up for their vacancy.

By 2020 the unsubsidized worker will be a minority citizen. It's already a fact in so many cities right now!

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It seems to me it is not the uninformed voter, it is whoever can raise the most money to brain wash the voter. Even with the low information voter the democraps still need massive vote fraud to win, and that is a fact.

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I dont think the moves out of those states are political. Its because people cant afford to live in them.....
With the economy and the prices here, young people cant afford homes..even when they both work. Seniors can make their retirement funds stretch further, elsewhere. I think this is why people are leaving this state. Not because of politics.

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I'm so used to living with liberals!

And even though this State has a majority of libs that run the place, the fact is 37% of us are conservative and we vote accordingly. So that means even in a "liberal" State like MA there's only a 13% margin that tilts the scale to their advantage. It's not as bad as it seems.

Add in the voter fraud and it's kind of close.