Reddest states, whitest states, blackest states, and scapegoats

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29. The great remigration has already done a lot for VA,FL,NC and can help turn GA,SC, TX blue

This article from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette gives us all cause for hope for the future of southern states now red turning blue, yes, even Texas, although one wonders if Michigan has been rendered more vulnerable to Republicans by the same migration patterns:

This reversal fits within a larger demographic shift among Americans in general, who are moving from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt. But the new black migration is nevertheless significant: Not only could it portend major changes to the nation's politics; it also testifies to the liberal North's failure to integrate African-Americans into the mainstream. As historian Walter Russell Mead has observed, that failure is "the most devastating possible indictment of the 20th century liberal enterprise in the United States."
The New York Times noticed in the early 1970s that, for the first time, more blacks were moving from the North to the South than vice versa. Last year, the Times described the South's share of black population growth as "about half the country's total in the 1970s, two-thirds in the 1990s and three-quarters in the decade that just ended."
Many of the migrants are "buppies" -- young, college-educated, upwardly mobile black professionals -- and older retirees. Over the last two decades, according to the Census, the states with the biggest gains in black population have been Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, Texas and Florida. New York, Illinois and Michigan have seen the greatest losses. Today, 57 percent of American blacks live in the South -- the highest percentage in a half-century.
Much of the migration has been urban-to-urban. During the first decade of this century, according to Brookings Institution demographer Bill Frey, the cities making the biggest gains in black population were Atlanta, Dallas and Houston. Meanwhile, New York City's black population fell by 67,709, Chicago's by 58,225, Detroit's by 37,603.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/the-great-reverse-migration-african-americans-are-abandoning-the-northern-cities-that-have-failed-them-655514/#ixzz2Wz2N2te0