Migrants Likely Helped Flip Georgia Blue, With 50,000 More People Moving Into the State Than Out Last Year
Georgia had the sixth-biggest net inflow of any state in 2019, and affordable Atlanta is perennially one of the most popular destinations for Redfin.com users leaving expensive coastal areas.
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Dec 03, 2020, 08:00 ET
SEATTLE, Dec. 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- (NASDAQ: RDFN) — People moving to the Atlanta area from pricey, liberal metros like New York, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles is likely one factor helping tilt Georgia blue in the 2020 presidential election for the first time in 28 years, according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage. Other factors include activism and a coordinated get-out-the-vote effort.
Joe Biden won Georgia by roughly 13,000 votes after President Trump won the state by about 211,000 votes in 2016. In Fulton County, home to Atlanta, Biden won by 46 percentage points, an uptick from Democrats' 40.6 percentage-point victory four years ago. Georgia's next-most populous counties, Gwinnett, Cobb and DeKalb, all voted Democratic by bigger margins than 2016 (Gwinnett: 18 points, up from 5.8 in 2016. Cobb: 14 points, up from 2.2. DeKalb: 67 points, up from 62.9).
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