Maybe we need to talk about that more then, and bring more attention to the positive changes going on throughout the country. I'm familiar with what's going on in Wisconsin and Michigan, as I live in Illinois. But some of the other states like Kentucky or West Virginia, I always intrinsically considered those red states. I figured it was always a given. I'm only 19 years old, and I only really got into politics during the great Republican primary of 2015-16, so I haven't been around the block much yet. Either way you cut it, it's still great signs for conservatism and thus by extension America.
Even VA has been trending red. People think of it as a red state but it isn't. It has voted Democrat for the majority of the past two hundred years and the only reason it is still Democrat is because of DC transplants.
Oh, ok. Please share what all of us must not know.
It always seems that NJ might be a win, but every election for the last, idunno, 20 years, it always stays blue.
I pray that 2020 is the switch, for Trump and down ballot.
The people of New Jersey deserve better. Hopefully they will figure that out. Oh, and fight the voter fraud that the democrat party is set to RAIN DOWN on the state. Fingers crossed though.
I know people intrinsically believe the party switch myth regardless of how many times it's busted because of this type of sentiment right here. My state went red federally after Reagan. It went red on the state level after Obama was elected. We have never had a Republican Governor win reelection, and we got our first Republican House since the '50s a couple of years ago.
... That state is KY. Now, be honest: did you know that we were blue in 2008? Or did you just assume that because we are somewhat southern and have good gun laws that we have been red since the '70s?
Also, just so you're aware: Democrats ran most of Congress from the 1930s to the 1980s. Look it up. Between 1955 and 1995, the House of Representatives was controlled by the Democrats every term without a pause. Seriously: we're less than 25 years away from that total dominance.
So, after that history, it's fairly safe to say that not only are conservatives on the upswing, but that upswing has really hit its stride and we're now taking states one after the other. (Which honestly I'm fine with no one noticing... Except we like facts here, so we at least should know better.)
The Democrat vs Republican dynamic was a lot different in the earlier parts of the 20th century, and you really cannot draw direct lines to what is happening today. It was not as bright-line conservative/liberal within the parties. It was not as partisan in some ways, but not necessarily better ways. The Democrats had a major split in their own party - the Dixiecrats controlled the south with some racist ideas. But this allowed the Democrats to win more in the South and the northern Democrats tolerated some of this for this reason. So the "control" the Democrats had is not the same control a party would have today, where they are more unified. They had control, party-wise, but they did not have cohesion within the party to get things done like maybe could be done today, as the votes were not party line.
Very true that politics was much different in the past My history teacher in high school used to say that people voted their pocketbooks. They vote for the party that looks out for them financially.
Republicans dominated in the suburbs and in parts of the country, like the Missouri bootheel, you could find just as many Democrats as you would in inner city St. Louis.
Nowadays, people (primarily over educated whites) tend to vote their feelings over logic. This is why the suburbs are trending blue. You’ll see someone pulling out of a tony neighborhood, with RESIST! PROUD DEMOCRAT stickers on the back of their Mercedes. In my experience, people like this generally have always had it pretty good and have been indoctrinated to think they are privileged and are somehow responsible for all the wrongs in America.
By voting Democrat, a liberal believes that he/she/it is being a good human. Just the action of filling in the bubble next to the D candidate erases their guilt. It’s almost like it’s their penance.
Everyday I'm becoming increasingly more convinced that Michael Knowles' is right on the money when he says leftists have replaced religion with politics. You've got their orthodoxy (liberal narrative and the victim hierarchy), the original sins of whiteness and male privilege, the scientists are their high priests and heresies for speaking against them, indulgences in the form of carbon tax credits, prophets of doom with global warming, NBC had a climate confessional, hell you can even be raised from the dead...it's only to vote, but still.
Wow, that's something you don't see every day. A state trending conservative! I hope we can pick them up!
Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Wes Virginia, Wisconsin... all on a long-term red trajectory
Maybe we need to talk about that more then, and bring more attention to the positive changes going on throughout the country. I'm familiar with what's going on in Wisconsin and Michigan, as I live in Illinois. But some of the other states like Kentucky or West Virginia, I always intrinsically considered those red states. I figured it was always a given. I'm only 19 years old, and I only really got into politics during the great Republican primary of 2015-16, so I haven't been around the block much yet. Either way you cut it, it's still great signs for conservatism and thus by extension America.
Even VA has been trending red. People think of it as a red state but it isn't. It has voted Democrat for the majority of the past two hundred years and the only reason it is still Democrat is because of DC transplants.
NJ might still have a chance, a good amount of the state is rural and our 2018 Senate election was a tossup
NJ? As in New Jersey?
Oh, ok. Please share what all of us must not know.
It always seems that NJ might be a win, but every election for the last, idunno, 20 years, it always stays blue.
I pray that 2020 is the switch, for Trump and down ballot.
The people of New Jersey deserve better. Hopefully they will figure that out. Oh, and fight the voter fraud that the democrat party is set to RAIN DOWN on the state. Fingers crossed though.
My friend Wes Virginia is a flaming liberal. Idk what you’re talking about.
I know people intrinsically believe the party switch myth regardless of how many times it's busted because of this type of sentiment right here. My state went red federally after Reagan. It went red on the state level after Obama was elected. We have never had a Republican Governor win reelection, and we got our first Republican House since the '50s a couple of years ago.
... That state is KY. Now, be honest: did you know that we were blue in 2008? Or did you just assume that because we are somewhat southern and have good gun laws that we have been red since the '70s?
Also, just so you're aware: Democrats ran most of Congress from the 1930s to the 1980s. Look it up. Between 1955 and 1995, the House of Representatives was controlled by the Democrats every term without a pause. Seriously: we're less than 25 years away from that total dominance.
So, after that history, it's fairly safe to say that not only are conservatives on the upswing, but that upswing has really hit its stride and we're now taking states one after the other. (Which honestly I'm fine with no one noticing... Except we like facts here, so we at least should know better.)
You are right, which is why the Dems are pushing unlimited third world immigration and globalization so hard
The Democrat vs Republican dynamic was a lot different in the earlier parts of the 20th century, and you really cannot draw direct lines to what is happening today. It was not as bright-line conservative/liberal within the parties. It was not as partisan in some ways, but not necessarily better ways. The Democrats had a major split in their own party - the Dixiecrats controlled the south with some racist ideas. But this allowed the Democrats to win more in the South and the northern Democrats tolerated some of this for this reason. So the "control" the Democrats had is not the same control a party would have today, where they are more unified. They had control, party-wise, but they did not have cohesion within the party to get things done like maybe could be done today, as the votes were not party line.
Very true that politics was much different in the past My history teacher in high school used to say that people voted their pocketbooks. They vote for the party that looks out for them financially.
Republicans dominated in the suburbs and in parts of the country, like the Missouri bootheel, you could find just as many Democrats as you would in inner city St. Louis.
Nowadays, people (primarily over educated whites) tend to vote their feelings over logic. This is why the suburbs are trending blue. You’ll see someone pulling out of a tony neighborhood, with RESIST! PROUD DEMOCRAT stickers on the back of their Mercedes. In my experience, people like this generally have always had it pretty good and have been indoctrinated to think they are privileged and are somehow responsible for all the wrongs in America.
By voting Democrat, a liberal believes that he/she/it is being a good human. Just the action of filling in the bubble next to the D candidate erases their guilt. It’s almost like it’s their penance.
Everyday I'm becoming increasingly more convinced that Michael Knowles' is right on the money when he says leftists have replaced religion with politics. You've got their orthodoxy (liberal narrative and the victim hierarchy), the original sins of whiteness and male privilege, the scientists are their high priests and heresies for speaking against them, indulgences in the form of carbon tax credits, prophets of doom with global warming, NBC had a climate confessional, hell you can even be raised from the dead...it's only to vote, but still.
More common than you think actually. Without CA, the nation has been turning red almost every election around the nation.
stop the steal
Oregon actually trended conservative by a bigger margin. But it went largely unnoticed because its still not really in swing territory.