Blue States Got Too Comfortable
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The left has long believed that Democratic states are the future, whereas Republican states are the past. But migration data show that red and blue might be starting to switch places.
First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic.
State of Disunion
“Democratic-leaning states represent the this week. But geographic trends suggest a possible reversal of this state of the union: Florida and Texas were for inbound domestic migration, with New York and California in the rear. And some red states may be better hubs for employment right now too: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data suggest that there are now more nonfarming jobs in Florida than in New York.
