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Conservatives go to red states and liberals go to blue as the country grows more polarized (apnews.com)

submitted 1 year ago by HumbleHobo to c/politics

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“One thing we have really found is a place to feel comfortable being ourselves,” Dean said. Americans are segregating by their politics at a rapid clip, helping fuel the greatest divide between the states in modern history.

One party controls the entire legislature in all but two states. In 28 states, the party in control has a supermajority in at least one legislative chamber — which means the majority party has so many lawmakers that they can override a governor’s veto. Not that that would be necessary in most cases, as only 10 states have governors of different parties than the one that controls the legislature

This can only end badly as conservatives seem to have no problem ruling over land in empty states.

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[–] Gumby 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do not think this is going to happen. The Red states are bleeding money and intelligence. The Blue states subsidize them through federal taxes and high quality education. The leaders of the red states are educated and intelligent enough to understand what will happen if they allow this dynamic to change.

This is very similar to the "Moral Majority" back in the 70s and 80s. They were neither moral or a majority and eventually imploded. This was the GOP response to Nixon and the damage the impeachment did to the party.

I believe the GOP will tease the extremists and then quietly gather behind a moderate that is electable. They will then go back to their old ways of attempting to dismantle democracy.

[–] agoramachina 6 points 1 year ago

Different situation, but I never thought that Brexit would happen. I don't think the leaders pushing it thought it would actually happen either.