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The Great Relocation

How Interstate Migration Is Reshaping American Power in the Most Significant Population Realignment Since the Dust Bowl Era

The Last Wire

This isn’t just about people moving.

It’s about who controls Congress next.

Every U.S. House seat is tied to population. Every shift in where Americans live redraws the battlefield — district by district, seat by seat. And right now, that battlefield is moving.

States gaining residents are gaining representation.
States losing people are losing power.

That means votes in Washington are being quietly reassigned… before the next election is even held.

Follow the migration patterns and you’ll see it:
a slow but undeniable transfer of political weight — away from legacy strongholds and toward rising regions reshaping the map.

This isn’t theory. It’s math.

And when the next reapportionment hits, the balance in Congress won’t look the same.

The real question: who’s about to gain control… without winning a single vote?

Read on at The Last Wire

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Another great article!  The question remains...will the internal immigrants retain their old voting habits, turning red states blue, or will they understand why they were driven from their old homes? 

Looking at my own state of Arizona, I have concerns.  People who relocate to rural Counties are registering as Republicans, often changing from Democrats to Republicans, but people migrating to big urban Counties like Maricopa and Pima seem to be staying Dems and voting stupidly.  It's becoming more difficult to keep Arizona "Red," especially with the widespread cheating in those two Peoples Republics.
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In my living memory, Massachusetts has gone from 13 House Seats to 9.  Those 4 Seats went somewhere ... Texas? ... Florida?

Dem anti-growth and Green New Fraud policies in the Northeast will drive more Yankees to move elsewhere.

Mass is a great place to live ... if you can afford it ... which is becoming more difficult with each property tax re-assessment, each electricity bill increase, each natural gas bill increase, and nitwit ideas to increase the cost of driving.
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I've battled some here making sweeping claims about the negative stuff going on in the country. Maybe in the urban areas, maybe on the coasts, or in your area, but far less so in the center of the country.

Crime is still low, people are having babies, governments aren't trying to implement Net Zero, and though we got our share of shameless white trash, they're still generally non-violent. Life is good here even if it's alot more boring than the big city.

And that's why people are migrating toward the interior and the rural areas. It's not what you have in those other places. Let's just hope the liberals stay away and don't screw it up.
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I've battled some here making sweeping claims about the negative stuff going on in the country. Maybe in the urban areas, maybe on the coasts, or in your area, but far less so in the center of the country.

Crime is still low, people are having babies, governments aren't trying to implement Net Zero, and though we got our share of shameless white trash, they're still generally non-violent. Life is good here even if it's alot more boring than the big city.

And that's why people are migrating toward the interior and the rural areas. It's not what you have in those other places. Let's just hope the liberals stay away and don't screw it up.

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I've battled some here making sweeping claims about the negative stuff going on in the country. Maybe in the urban areas, maybe on the coasts, or in your area, but far less so in the center of the country.

Crime is still low, people are having babies, governments aren't trying to implement Net Zero, and though we got our share of shameless white trash, they're still generally non-violent. Life is good here even if it's alot more boring than the big city.

And that's why people are migrating toward the interior and the rural areas. It's not what you have in those other places. Let's just hope the liberals stay away and don't screw it up.

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Thomas Jefferson was correct about a lot of things!
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In my living memory, Massachusetts has gone from 13 House Seats to 9.  Those 4 Seats went somewhere ... Texas? ... Florida?

Dem anti-growth and Green New Fraud policies in the Northeast will drive more Yankees to move elsewhere.

Mass is a great place to live ... if you can afford it ... which is becoming more difficult with each property tax re-assessment, each electricity bill increase, each natural gas bill increase, and nitwit ideas to increase the cost of driving.

We are experiencing the same in Florida - rising property taxes, rising utilities and our City is now proposing an additional sales tax to cover costs of infrastructure and 'improvements' that the majority of the people were against to begin with.

Where to move to?  As the liberal stranglehold expands, it's difficult to discern where to move to...then there's the cost of moving out of state and the physical capabilities that comes with that.

With the tremendous influx of people from NY, NJ and CA, I fear that FL will turn blue.

FL is in the process of redrawing their district maps; Jeffries and DeSantis are battling this.
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Have to share on the personal side, was talking to a mom and her kids the other day, the one daughter was about ten and with wide eyes and a big grin, she tells me their from Colorado visiting family and she loves it here. Told her this area was a great place to live and the best kept secret in the country, and if you move here you'll love it.

Don't think I convinced the mom but I think the daughter was ready to start packing.
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Bear in mind the federal government spends $7 trillion while state and local governments spend $4 trillion.  $1.1 trillion of federal spending amounts to transfers to the various states, with strings attached. 

Runaway federal courts also have the ability to destroy state and local authority in every meaningful respect.

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We have an old saying here, "Winter keeps the riff-raff out."

Subzero temperatures place a limit on the homeless population; they either get it together (with ample opportunities to do so), survive on limited opportunities via charity, or pull stakes and head south.

But the tentacles of policy extend beyond high population areas, like the questionable habits of haute coture or even more simple popular convention, spread by mass media and 'social' media.
This is the battleground, not the polls nor the courts.

If conservative ideas are to prevail, they must be sold in the marketplaces of common thought, namely by 'influencers' in the social media arena.
The entire rural culture needs to be wrapped up like a Madison Avenue gimmick and presented to the new arrivals, many of whom will not see the fallacies and inappropriateness of more urban habits, but will try to impose the errors of those ways on their new venues.
To which I can only say: "RESIST!".
With every fiber of your being, defend the rural culture, even as apartment blocks go up, as new housing sprouts from the land, defend the concept of being self-sufficient, of knowing and helping your neighbors when they are in need, of honesty, of doing for yourself and each other, hands on.
Stay friendly, tear down the divisions which urban pundits have erected in the minds of people, and the red states will gain people, without the poisonous idealogies that have made the areas they fled unlivable.


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WOW!

Thanks for all the amazing responses guys!

I ended up back in a clinic taking care of my damned stomach all day yesterday... thank God I had set to publish this morning.

Democrats KNOW ALL THIS, they see it coming. The will lose seats in 2030... no matter whether illegals are counted or not!
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WOW!

Thanks for all the amazing responses guys!

I ended up back in a clinic taking care of my damned stomach all day yesterday... thank God I had set to publish this morning.

Democrats KNOW ALL THIS, they see it coming. The will lose seats in 2030... no matter whether illegals are counted or not!

Shit... this posted yesterday.

I lost an entire day of my life.
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Shit... this posted yesterday.

I lost an entire day of my life.

Hope you're feeling better.

2032 has the potentiality of a political earthquake. Internal migration + southern state redistricting + voter ID adoption  = a potential sea change for the GOP. Unless they mess it up. Which, being the GOP: they might yet.
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Hope you're feeling better.

2032 has the potentiality of a political earthquake. Internal migration + southern state redistricting + voter ID adoption  = a potential sea change for the GOP. Unless they mess it up. Which, being the GOP: they might yet.

I am. Thanks.

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Democrats see all that. They’ve been staring at it a while.

That’s why Biden (read Obama’s 3rd term) let everyone in, and everyone else was Barack-bound to the “Border is secure” mantra.

IF SCOTUS land on the side of sanity when it comes to birthright citizenship  Trump deportations continue, the census decides that you don’t include illegals when calculating congressional delegations, and picture ID to vote, the left will have to  dump AOC and her coven fast, and rebuild or die.

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I am. Thanks.

They’re acid reflux flareups that knock me on my ass.

Democrats see all that. They’ve been staring at it a while.

That’s why Biden (read Obama’s 3rd term) let everyone in, and everyone else was Barack-bound to the “Border is secure” mantra.

IF SCOTUS land on the side of sanity when it comes to birthright citizenship  Trump deportations continue, the census decides that you don’t include illegals when calculating congressional delegations, and picture ID to vote, the left will have to  dump AOC and her coven fast, and rebuild or die.
If the Democrats do rebuild, Fetterman might be their best bet, quite a change from pariah.

(Matt 21:42)

But I expect the fringes and communists would have a cartwheeling fit.

Glad you're feeling better!
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Not good. It's Liberalism going to seed. And them that are down wind will rue the day...  **nononono*

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I have relocated many times.  IL to Dallas. Dallas to Tampa. Tampa to IL. IL to Georgia. Georgia to Fort Worth. Fort Worth to FL.   

I migrate
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I have relocated many times.  IL to Dallas. Dallas to Tampa. Tampa to IL. IL to Georgia. Georgia to Fort Worth. Fort Worth to FL.   

I migrate

Where in FL this time?
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If the Democrats do rebuild, Fetterman might be their best bet, quite a change from pariah.

(Matt 21:42)

But I expect the fringes and communists would have a cartwheeling fit.

Glad you're feeling better!

It would be a return to basic Kennedyesque liberalism at least.

I can handle that.
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