People in general go where they will find others of a agreeable nature.

Its just human instinct to do so.

honestly? as long as the democrats are in a freefall I have no idea

I myself like to find places where I can ask questions.

But I'm not like most people.

if you look at the idealogical spread charts they are the only ones that moved on the chart and they are in a freefall left while conservatives are where they have always been

I would suspect the majority of users here in this discord aren't like most people to be honest.

When their states start failing because of bad policies then they have to find somewhere to go.

It makes sense then that they try to move into territories which were like theirs.

they did... to texas. Which is now liberal

Birds of a feather and all that.

this may be the last year a republican gets elected for it's senate

Could be.

https://i0.wp.com/rud.is/b/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/engfull.png?fit=500%2C458&ssl=1

Yep.

that was in 2014.. imagine what the spread is now

republicans in there had the same peak in 2001 and 2014 while the democrats shifted immensely left

Makes me wonder are there other factors involved in the shift other than just people moving?

social media echochambers

For instance how many Texans moved at the same time, how many Texans were convinced to vote democrat and so on.

I'd love to see that graph but with post-2016 numbers

Yeah.

https://thumbnails.texastribune.org/ZVE_XPwobTDgeI4i0rPcFAIfig0=/850x570/smart/filters:quality(80)/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/11/10/TX2016-county-results.png

it was all people who moved to texas and into the southern coast and certain major cities

@Misomania hmmmm. I don't know the geography of Texas very well, but I'm going to assume its all major cities that have turned democrat after the move.

mostly yes plus the very southern edge. Not sure why that image doesn't load

It makes sense if Texas is going democrat then. Seeing as major cities always seem to be full of democrats.

and as you can guess, each of those cities has a VERY generous welfare program

They like their city life.

while the rural areas do not

Of coarse.

Very inviting.

"Come move here. We will give you free stuff!"

@triplefife hang on, are you trying to crash local wages again, Mr globalist?

You know it won't work out for you in the very end

?

What you talking about Willus?

You offering free stuff to move to your city, I see through your games

there was also a massive demographic shift in southern border aligned states as well

@BlueAndBlack you know were talking about Texas right?

Look, just because it's a desert and just because "Mexicans" (who neither look, nor act like actual Mexicans, who are pretty white) are capable of all those oil and ranching jobs doesn't mean you should