Why is North Dakota the biggest there? Surely the fracking transplants would be conservative??? (Or could be that the whole state is one large fracking zone.)
Could be super, super anecdotal -- and perhaps too much information to share online -- but Fargo has Microsoft's second biggest campus in the US. When I worked there, I'd say half the campus was from out of state (including myself): people from Texas, Seattle, Boston, New York, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of these more "liberal" transplants who now live in Fargo are waking up a bit now that they're out of their bubbles. I certainly did, and lots of others did, too. Probably doesn't fully explain why these people want to change their vote all of a sudden, but just thought I'd share a bit of my experience in the state.
Why is North Dakota the biggest there? Surely the fracking transplants would be conservative??? (Or could be that the whole state is one large fracking zone.)
Could be super, super anecdotal -- and perhaps too much information to share online -- but Fargo has Microsoft's second biggest campus in the US. When I worked there, I'd say half the campus was from out of state (including myself): people from Texas, Seattle, Boston, New York, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of these more "liberal" transplants who now live in Fargo are waking up a bit now that they're out of their bubbles. I certainly did, and lots of others did, too. Probably doesn't fully explain why these people want to change their vote all of a sudden, but just thought I'd share a bit of my experience in the state.