Blue State Reduction

[Gipper]

Excellent column by Michael Barone. It documents how Americans are voting with their feet. They are leaving the high taxes, high regulations, and big spending states that are the blue states. Many red states are growing much faster than the lib blue states. Will the blue states take notice like New Jersey is?

Today one out of 12 Americans lives in Texas--the same proportion that lived in New York City in 1930. Metropolitan Dallas and metropolitan Houston, with about six million people each, threaten to overtake our fourth largest metro area, San Francisco Bay (population about seven million), in the next decade.
In 1930 half of all Americans lived in New England, Megalopolis and the Foundry, and 40 years later 46% did. Now only one-third of Americans live in those three regions, the same proportion as live in the South Atlantic, Interior South and Texas.
Will those trends continue, or will the recession years around 2010 be seen as another flex point? It seems safe to say that the answer depends on public policy. As state and local governments cope with budget shortfalls and fiscal crises, they might do well to consider how their policies have reshaped America over the past 40 years.
Articles & Commentary http://www.aei.org/article/102980

 

[BigRob]

Excellent column by Michael Barone. It documents how Americans are voting with their feet. They are leaving the high taxes, high regulations, and big spending states that are the blue states. Many red states are growing much faster than the lib blue states. Will the blue states take notice like New Jersey is?

It has been trending this way for a couple years now, and the most important thing it will mean ultimately is more Congressional seats for "Red" states. Texas, for example, is getting four new Congressional seats.

It really is important for state governments to take note of these trends and act accordingly.

 

[pocketfullofshells]

It has been trending this way for a couple years now, and the most important thing it will mean ultimately is more Congressional seats for "Red" states. Texas, for example, is getting four new Congressional seats.

It really is important for state governments to take note of these trends and act accordingly.

at the same time, those red states need to look at how they are growing...people from the north moving south from blue states..making the state possibly less red actually ( at least in some congressional districts..overall its less noticeable)
Also from a growing Hispanic population...so the Go home you lazy mexicans crap will not go over well...

But as the older populations in the north gets older..im sure many will move south for health reasons...plus who wants to shovel 2 feet of snow at 70?