I think Democrats might want to move to a lovely congressional district in Georgia. It's rural, just north west of Atlanta, and south of Chattanooga. About 100,000 or so could turn that district blue, and make it a nice place to live.
There are several 4 or 5 star local restaurants, some Applebees, and a short drive to Atlanta's Stone Mountain Park (where I attended a wedding). And best of all, there is a train museum! The median household income is just around $28,000 per year, and that combined with only two months of 1.5 inch snowfalls, it sounds like a great place to retire. Not much for apartments or condos, but several houses are available in the area for less than $200,000.
You can take a pleasant drive over to Representative Marjorie Tatlor Greene's Georgia office in Dalton. But she probably won't be there because her office address is just a PO Box.
Georgia’s a nice place to live. No state taxes on pensions. Snow, once every 10 years or so where I live. But get a snow flurries which doesn’t stick or just a forecast of snow, there’s a run on the grocery store. There’ll be no milk, bread or eggs for a week.
As for congressional districts. We have 9 Republican, 5 Democratic. Georgia is roughly 35% black, all 5 democrats are black, 35% of Georgia’s congressional delegation. All Republicans white. For the longest time the majority minority or majority black districts have been mandated by the federal courts. I don’t think that applies anymore, but when drawing the Congressional districts, majority minority districts were adhered to. What that does is basically, in general place democratic voters into 5 districts and republican voters into the remaining 9. Call it legal gerrymandering by the courts. Without the majority minority districts, you’d probably have a 7-7 split in Georgia’s congressional districts.
While these majority minority districts certainly enhance black voters, that is if black voters must have a black representing them, it dilutes the Democratic vote when it comes to congress by placing most of them into 5 districts. Since Georgia just registers to vote, no party registration, one can only go by Cook’s PVI or partisan voting index which lists Georgia as R +3. Which simply means in the recent elections Georgia votes more Republican than the rest of the nation by 3 percentage points. That’s close to being even, independents decide who wins. Unlike nationally where Republicans must win the independents vote in order to win national elections, in Georgia, Democrats must win independents in order to win statewide.
