by J. Andrew Sinclair, Ph.D. & Kenneth P. Miller, J.D., Ph.D. In a private newsletter that he writes for a small group of activists, Podhorzer recently laid out a detailed case for thinking of the two blocs as fundamentally different nations uneasily sharing the same geographic space. The margin of error in the national sample is 3; for each of the four states examined extensively in this report, it is 4. [4] In that match-up, Harris leads Newsom 56-44%. Not only arethese laws antithetical tothe popular will of constituents, they also disproportionately harmpeople of color like my family. Read: Americas red-blue divide is about to get starker. "COVID isn't a red state or blue state issue. To truly feel the effects of a demographic change, whether its young voters or new people coming in from perhaps more liberal states, people are going to have to turn out to vote, Cross said. The same data show that four additional states lean toward being Democratic states. Wednesday, 27 July 2022 11:39 AM EDT. Some of the more notable states on the list are California, New York, Illinois, and Washington, DC. Election results left Republicans and conservatives cheering, but also made clear that a battle very much rages within the Democratic Party - the dominant party in New York State - Tuesday night, that Democratic progress seemed to halt. As measured on fronts including the January 6 insurrection, the procession of Republican 2020 election deniers running for offices that would provide them with control over the 2024 electoral machinery, and the systematic advance of a Republican agenda by the Supreme Court, the underlying political question of the 2020s remains whether majority ruleand democracy as weve known itcan survive this offensive. But the party couldnt replicate it this time around, in spite of ORourke again leading the ticket as well as lingering anger over the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection by Trump supporters and a widely criticized law enforcement response to the May 24 school shooting in Uvalde. Texas40 electoral votes are on the table. Many red states have experienced robust job growth (though thats been heavily concentrated in their blue-leaning metro areas). The Texas Tribune is a nonprofit statewide news organization dedicated to keeping Texans informed on politics and policy issues that impact their communities. But Republicans were buoyed by a backlash over high prices at the gas pump and grocery stores, opposition to President Joe Bidens immigration policies and fights over rising crime particularly in rural Texas, where the GOP won its strongest margins of the night, Landry said. . Thats a reversal from the middle decades of the 20th century, when the basic trend was toward greater convergence. But although Arizona is blue for now, Volgy isn't committed to that. But so many of today's states have a partisan voting index . As a follow-up, we asked Democrats to choose head-to-head between Harris and Newsom. "I do not believe that America will become violent enough to be characterized as a civil war," Abrahms says. Nearly one-fourth of Democratic voters (24% in California and 23% in New York) described themselves as worse off or much worse off now than they were two years ago, yet about 9 of 10 Democrats in those states will vote for Governors Newsom and Hochul. Governors in both red and blue states have watched their approval ratings sink throughout the pandemic. This maxim would clearly preclude New Mexico's shift from blue to red, considering its diversity: approximately 49.3% of New Mexico's residents are Latino, while 11% are Native American. See all customer images . Biden's victory, and the matter in which he won, left many political pundits. . Rural Texas still rules the day. She believes it is time for the state to head in an entirely new direction. The path all four governors are taking to reelection is paved with partisanship. During the U.S. Presidential Election in 2000, journalist Tim Russert used the terms "red state" and "blue state" based on the colored maps used during his televised coverage of the election. A Republican from San Diego wrote, Taxes are too high in my state and the quality of life is getting worse. An independent from near Santa Barbara wrote more simply, CA is run by morons., The story is somewhat different in Texas and Florida. That includes five open seats, including Republican retirements in the key battlegrounds of Pennsylvania and North Carolina and the. . Republicans also seemed poised to add slightly to their majorities in the Texas Legislature, where theyve controlled both chambers for 20 years, and held large leads in all statewide judicial races. And one crucial element of that, he argues, is the return of what he calls one-party rule in the red nation.. The majority of people in these states have been voting for the Democratic Party for quite a few years now. After their expected reelections, at least two of these governorsDeSantis and Newsomare positioned to carry their states policy visions into a national competition for the presidency. By the end of the night, the state Democratic Party had acknowledged in a press release that this was a tough cycle. But in a joint statement, party officials urged their supporters to get back in this fight starting Wednesday. Greg Abbott at his watch party in McAllen on Nov. 8, 2022. We are more like a federated republic of two nations: Blue Nation and Red Nation. Dave McKinney covers Illinois politics and government for WBEZ. As the distance widens between the two sections, she said, there are all kinds of potential for really deep disruptions, social disruptions, that arent just about our feelings and our opinions., To Podhorzer, the growing separation means that after the period of fading distinctions, bedrock differences dating back to the countrys founding are resurfacing. The prediction was purple. He said state patronage jobs are no longer being doled out to high-achieving Democratic political workers. Spencer, who has been involved in Democratic politics since the early 1990s, said his party affiliation has not been a helpful calling card for him in his community. Drazan has thus far focused her campaign on issues such as public safety. Until Republicans figure out how to win again in Chicagos suburbs, the party and voters who support it in nearly 85% of the states counties run the risk of history repeating itself in 2022. Democrats had hoped this seasons political fervor over abortion rights, the deadly blackout during the 2021 snowstorm, gun violence and the economy would help them overcome a generation-long losing streak in Texas halls of power. In 2018, he won his second term by just over 13. Deep in the heart of Texas somewhere between the starry desert nights of El Paso and the blooming sage of Beaumont is the steady beat of profound contradictions. Most of the states we live in appear to be solidly Republican or Democrat. Approximately 36% of respondents supported the Republican, while just 34% threw their hat behind Kotek instead. The increasing divergenceand antagonismbetween the red nation and the blue nation is a defining characteristic of 21st-century America. The one South Texas congressional seat Republicans did claim, with the victory of Monica De La Cruz, was in a district drawn in 2021 to help a Republican win. *Note: This report was updated on November 8, 2022 to correct an insignificant typographical error. The GOPs success in Texas, even as it fell short of expectations nationally, signaled voters endorsement of Abbott following a second term marked by aggressive actions on the border and immigration, conservative positions on LGBTQ and other social issues and a near-total ban on abortion. My dad would often come home from work shortly before my mom headed out for her late-night shift as a nurse. Later, in a survey by WBEZ, he was among only a handful of Illinois legislators who would not publicly state their vaccination status. Predicting three states flipping blue to red, four or more Senate seats blue to red and at least 60 house seats blue to red. The trend of population shifts from Democratically dominated blue states to Republican-controlled red states only accelerated in the COVID-era of the past 2 years, according to census data and other information from companies like U-Haul. P odhorzer defines modern red and blue America as the states in which each party has usually held unified control of the governorship and state legislature in recent years. To respond to a column, submit a comment to letters@usatoday.com. It seems unlikely that the Trump-era Republicans installing the policy priorities of their preponderantly white and Christian coalition across the red states will be satisfied just setting the rules in the places now under their control. Although Texas is on the cusp of turning blue, these same lawmakers banned abortion after about six weeks and restricted voting rights, culminating in possibly the most conservative legislative. Voters seem to be fine with the status quo, said Drew Landry, assistant professor of government at South Plains College in Levelland, west of Lubbock. The MAGA movement is not stopping at the borders of the states it already controls, Podhorzer writes. This book examines how socio-cultural, demographic . Follow him on Twitter:@chrischudeleon. Republicans and Democrats are battling for control over Congress, while many states are busy holding gubernatorial elections to appoint a new state leader. Newsom and DeSantis have already been sparring by attacking the rival states policies. When Im talking to people, just about everyone acknowledges the fact life is not what it should be, and its certainly not what our founding fathers intended, he said. (Podhorzer also offers a slightly different grouping of the states that reflects the more recent trend in which Virginia has voted like a blue state at the presidential level, and Arizona and Georgia have moved from red to purple. House Republicans are increasingly confident they can make unexpected inroads into some solidly Democratic congressional districts, including in some of the bluest states in the country: California, Connecticut, New York, Oregon and Rhode Island. The 102 GOP-controlled cities and towns, in fact, is less than the 119 Stefanowski won in 2018 in a losing . Last year, Spencer ran for Baileys open House seat but lost to Republican state Rep. Adam Niemerg, R-Dieterich. At least 90% of voters from the opposing party in each state are sticking with their partys candidate. . The rest were either undecided or preferred someone other than the top three candidates. A lot of people downstate feel thats whats happened.. Financial supporters play no role in the Tribune's journalism. Max Abrahms (right), who teaches national security and terrorism courses, warns of labeling America's red-blue divide a civil war. Meanwhile, California, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, and New Jersey rounded out the bottom of the list. Democrats went from winning 43 counties in the 1998 governors race down to a dismal one county in the 2014 race, in which Democratic incumbent Gov. Americas future is Texas. In each of the four states, our survey explored voter perceptions about how life was going with respect to your personal financial situation and the quality of life in your community. We asked: For each area, are things better or worse than they were two years ago?. Disclosure: University of Houston has been a financial supporter of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that is funded in part by donations from members, foundations and corporate sponsors. Conversely, in each state, no more than 5% overall said they were financially much better off. There is, however, reason to be hopeful. This comes after Donald Trump won Georgia by six points in 2016. Florida added one seat, and Texas added two. Regardless of the margins Rauner put up in them, they werent enough to overcome Pritzker winning four out of five of the collar counties and taking Cook County by historic margins. The reluctance extends beyond those interested. Our results are broadly consistent with the findings of other publicly available polls: among Democratic candidates, President Biden is ahead, but there is no clear back-up option. When Pritzker won the governorship, he reversed the volume of county losses by Democrats. But it does mean that the 2020s may bring the greatest threats to the countrys basic stability since those dark and tumultuous years. Life expectancy is nearly three years greater in the blue (80.1 years) than the red (77.4) states. You can read diverse opinions from our Board of Contributors and other writers on the Opinion front page, on Twitter @usatodayopinion and in our daily Opinion newsletter. Podhorzer, like Mason and Grumbach, believes that the MAGA movements long-term goal is to tilt the electoral rules in enough states to make winning Congress or the White House almost impossible for Democrats. Thats the political home turf of state Sen. Darren Bailey, one of four declared GOP candidates aiming to unseat Pritzker next year. These changes were catalyzed by a diversifying electorate similar to Texas and aggressive investment in organizing to reach young voters and voters of color. At this early stage, all such choices are speculative. Each of these 10 states is projected to shed one seat:. This item: Disney & Pixar's Turning Red Blu-ray [2022] [Region Free] Blu-ray . ), Our survey asked respondents across the nation to register their early preferences for the 2024 presidential race. Spencer is the Democratic County chairman in Clay County, about 240 miles south of Chicago. Those traditional Democrats now go largely to very conservative churches that are opposed to abortion and those sort of things, and theyre spoken about freely in the churches, said Poshard, whose own record of support for gun rights and opposition to abortion dampened Democratic enthusiasm for his gubernatorial bid. OREGON POLL: @ChristineDrazan 36%@TinaKotek 34%@senbetsyjohnson 19%9% undecidedhttps://t.co/Q4dZtymPg7 pic.twitter.com/NB2cIsLUfm, Emerson College Polling (@EmersonPolling) October 4, 2022. And it was another rebuke of Democratic gubernatorial nominee Beto ORourke, who lost his third election in four years. But Arizona is a blue state. This survey provides fresh evidence that the nations four most populous states remain firmly located on opposite sides of our partisan divide, with two in the red camp and two in the blue. Per capita spending on elementary and secondary education is almost 50 percent higher in the blue states compared with red. Put another way, in an election that . Specifically, Republicans are more likely to want to leave California and New York and more Democrats are more likely to want to leave Texas and Florida. A 13-year-old girl named Meilin turns into a giant red panda whenever she gets too excited. The pattern of Democrats contracting into more densely populated areas while surrendering big swathes of political turf is already shaping the contours of the still-early 2022 gubernatorial campaign. The new data for 2022 follows a similar path as 2020 and 2021s migration patterns. An emergency declaration is a powerful tool we need to help homeless Oregonians. At one time we truly were the "United" States of America, but now we have been split into two opposing camps that deeply hate one another. These maps offer a chance to look beneath the. I would bet if you look across the Democrat Party and downstate Illinois youll find probably 50 to 60% of the precincts not even filled with committeemen, because that expectation that working in the rank-and-file of the party will result in some sort of help in getting a job isnt there anymore, he said. One-party hegemony in these states also allows their governors to build robust policy records they can wield when stepping onto the national stage. Our findings indicate that both candidates can count on the support of vast majorities of their own parties, with Newsom losing slightly more Democrats than DeSantis loses Republicans. The country is bifurcating, Bolling says in the film. By Brian Trusdell | But then again, that is how a democracy works, he said, and Im not sure what there is to be done about it.. They have moved to the left and to the right, respectively, since 1970, with. For all respondents who expressed an interest in moving, we asked a simple follow-up question: why? Among Democrats, Newsom (7%) lags behind Vice President (and fellow Californian) Kamala Harris (14%) in the large field that includes Biden, and it is far from clear he would be willing to challenge either Harris or Biden. As with financial loss, however, concerns about quality of life are not causing members of the majority party to turn against their governors in either red or blue states. The RED WAVE did not happen, Flores wrote in a fiery Tweet after her apparent defeat on Tuesday. Rev. The color purple represents their multi-faceted makeup. We should've done this a long time ago, but my Democrat opponents have failed to come through for Oregon families. Key states with a less white electorate are now, according to Redfin: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. It doesnt matter if Im in the inner city of Chicago. 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Mostly, Republicans do well in rural areas, Democrats do well in the cities, and the suburbs are mixed but are more Republican. And those dividing lines were largely set at the nations founding, when slave states and free states forged an uneasy alliance to become one nation., Podhorzer isnt predicting another civil war, exactly. It may be time to stop talking about red and blue America. A recent poll from Emerson College shows that a typically deep blue state may be on the verge of turning red after November. Florida isn't bright red but a long-standing swing state. No Democratic-controlled state has passed any of those measures. Prior to the 2020 presidential election, I coauthored Blue Metros, Red States: The Shifting Urban-Rural Divide in America's Swing States. Pritzkers campaign has made clear it doesnt aim to cede any of that turf next November to whatever Republican prevails in the June 28, 2022 primary, and that it hopes to build on 2018s results. Because of that, he said, the labor vote in some areas downstate is trending Republican. By, Missouri House gives initial approval to state control of St. Louis Police Department, Passenger totals at Lambert Airport jumped in 2022, but still lag pre-pandemic levels, The federal government isn't actually measuring how inflation is hurting rural America, Dispute over Fox Theatre ownership leaves its future in doubt. STATE OF THE ECONOMYTAKING HITS AND RUNNING UP DEFICITS. Spencer drew only 18 percent of the vote. Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2022 Disc didn't work Images in this review Reviews with images. One might think incumbents in these states should fear voter retribution at a time when many Americans are struggling. While Texas Democrats still face daunting historical odds having not carried the state in a presidential electionsince 1976 or won statewide since 1994 parallels can be drawn to Arizona, another border state where Republicans hold has eroded. It's official: Florida is a red state The former swing state is now a lost cause for Democrats. The nations political future is uncertain, as partisans on both sides are waiting to see whether the presidential nominees in 2020 will run again in 2024. Forbes magazine says the shift in population has been as much political as it has been economic. Bailey, whose home county was represented by a Democrat less than 20 years ago, regards himself as a direct byproduct of downstates hardening red hue, a trend he attributes to a decline in moral integrity and fiscal integrity by those in power, particularly Democrats. Florida saw the biggest influx of new residents, some . A series of blue states are set to lose political power in 2020 for the 2022 midterm elections, newly released data from the Census Bureau suggests. The races drew former President Bill Clinton and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, for the Democrats, while U.S. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-California, and Ronna McDaniel, chair of the Republican National Committee, stumped for Republicans. Nov. 9, 202212 AM Central. . re: Red states that will eventually turn Blue? AEI, a center-right think tank, said that empirical evidence suggests that domestic migration patterns in the US do reflect Americans and firms voting/moving with their feet from Democratic-controlled, high-tax, business-unfriendly, fiscally unhealthy, economically stagnant states with relatively high electricity and housing costs to Republican-controlled, lower-tax, more business-friendly, fiscally healthy and economically vibrant states with lower electricity and housing costs.. The biggest news is that the exodus from progressive-led states hasn't slowed . Lightyear (Feature) by Chris Evans Blu-ray . Only 19%of Texas voters believe there is frequent voter fraud, yet lawmakers cemented Texas status as thehardestplace to vote in the country by restricting early voting options and empowering partisan poll watchers. This survey differs from others by including in the field Governor Hochul of New York and Governor Abbott of Texasas well as Californias Governor Newsom, whom most early polls have excluded. Not a one-Democrat, one-Republican in the Senate state like Florida was for many years. Yet, concerns about personal finances do not appear to be driving voting decisions in the gubernatorial races in these states. The impact of these investments (as well as massive defense spending across both periods) on states that had historically spent little on public services and economic development helped steadily narrow the gap in per capita income between the states of the old Confederacy and the rest of the country from the 1930s until about 1980. A state with a higher urban population is going to be bluer than a state with a rural population. On its own, the blue nation would be the worlds second-largest economy, trailing only China. There was a lot of posturing by some Republicans that theyd hit the trifecta in South Texas by taking all three seats, so Democrats have felt maybe a tiny bit of relief at that, Cross said. Admittedly, many of those 86 counties are sparsely populated. are registered trademarks of Newsmax Media, Inc. Newsmax TV, and Newsmax World are trademarks of Newsmax Media, Inc. The survey design included a national sample of 1,000 registered voters and state oversamples of approximately equal sizes of registered voters in California, New York, Texas, and Florida, as well as in Pennsylvania (the subject of a separate report). North Carolina is probably the most likely of those to go blue in 2024. Follow him@davemckinney. More results can be found at www.roseinstitute.org. . I was born in Houston to immigrants from Hong Kong and Mexico. All of this is fueling what Ive called the great divergence now under way between red and blue states. The governors of all four states have positioned themselves to win reelection in 2022 by retaining the support of members of their states dominant party, rendering opposition by people outside that party largely irrelevant. Several high-level military officials at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota were relieved of duty this week after thei. Because of this reality, these states can switch from supporting one party to the other, from election to election. The structural attacks on our institutions that paved the way for Trumps candidacy will continue to progress, Podhorzer argues, with or without him at the helm.. Those states are: California Conencticut Delaware Hawaii Illinois Maryland Massachusetts Minnesota New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Rhode Island Vermont Washington. 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