Americans Are Moving South And West, Taking Congressional Clout With Them.
Americans continue moving out of the Northeast and Midwest to sunnier and warmer locales in the South and West in a decades long trend. (NY Times)
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“The country’s old center of political power — the industrial belt stretching from New York to Illinois — is once again losing seats in Congress while Sun Belt states such as Florida, North Carolina and Texas will gain them. California will lose a seat for the first time.
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The American population continues to move South and West in what is a decades long migration to more traditionally conservative states. These states, however, are experiencing a dramatic demographic shift of their own that is reflected in their voting patterns in the the last few election cycles with states like Georgia turning blue. North Carolina voted blue in the Presidential election of 2008 in what was probably a harbinger of the changes afoot in parts of the South as more immigrants and Northerners relocate to these warmer regions. The gerrymandered Congressional delegations hailing from these southern states will not reflect their new demographic reality because of severely gerrymandered districts designed to send as many Republicans to Congress as possible.
