Young Adults Are Reshaping the Electoral Map

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Young Adults Are Reshaping the Electoral Map

April 25, 2021 at 2:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 87 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/04/25/young-adults-are-reshaping-the-electoral-map/

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Associated Press: “Once solidly conservative places such as Texas have seen increasingly large islands of liberalism sprout in their cities, driven by the migration of younger adults, who lean Democratic. Since 2010, the 20-34-year-old population has increased by 24% in San Antonio, 22% in Austin and 19% in Houston… In November’s election, two states that also saw sharp growth in young people in their largest cities — Arizona and Georgia — flipped Democratic in the presidential contest.”

“As mostly college-educated transplants have relocated to Denver and its satellite communities, Colorado has gone from being a solidly Republican state to a competitive swing state to a solidly Democratic one. It’s a pattern that some political experts expect could be replicated in other states importing loads of young people, even traditionally conservative Texas.”

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[Mad_Machine76]

1. It's not happening fast enough

but it's definitely happening. What we need to be most concerned about, of course, is right-wing Republicans basically locking themselves in power more or less indefinitely. That won't keep them in power forever, of course, because, well, they WILL die off at some point but their frustration of democracy will simply not be tolerated.

[msongs]

2. is that why repubs control most state legislatures? nt

[Salviati]

3. Gerrymandering.

If the younger folks are moving to the cities, that means all of those rural legislative districts are controlled by the republicans.