How Arizona Became A Swing State

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8. Agreed

Sometimes I think that Democrats made a mistake in ignoring the South for so long. Georgia is closing in on 1/3 of the population being African-American, and Mississippi is approaching 40% African-American. Couple that with the growing Hispanic/Latino population and the influx of old liberals from the Northeast, and soon there will be nowhere for the Republicans to hide.

Virginia has turned blue in Presidential elections for the same reasons - Demographic shift and the growth of the Northern Virginia suburbs of DC. I’m hoping maybe that a similar dynamic might eventually affect South Carolina - large black population, and the booming suburbs of Charlotte that are over the state line into S.C. in my own N.C., I had great hope when Obama won the state in ‘08, but then came the 2010 disaster when Republicans took over the NC legislature for the first time in 100 years. Hopefully this is the year when we kick them to the curb for good.