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Could be, but the migration seems to have boiled down to bread, butter and roofing issues. That was stated in the article. In other words, supporting black lives matter or defund the police means little if that doesn’t put a roof over your head and food on the table. This from the article.
In those cities, the cost of living on top of the grinding structural racism in housing, schools, jobs and entrepreneurship, chews at Black people more than red meat Southern politics. The Democrats can talk all the Black Lives Matter they want, but the nitty gritty of a roof over the head and bread on the table is more important than a ranting Ron DeSantis in Florida, a curmudgeonly Greg Abbott in Texas, or a combative Brian Kemp in Georgia.
I didn’t include New York, New Jersey, Illinois and California in my list of trending states from blue to red or red to blue. They’re safe Democratic states, not swing states. Now I’m going back to take a look at them as the article states those four states have lost the most blacks going to red states.
California 2000 D+12, 2022 D+13 Illinois 2000 D+12, 2022 D+7 New Jersey 2000 D+10, 2022 D +6 New York D+15, 2022 D+10
It does seem the loss of blacks has moved 3 of the 4 solid Democratic states to being a bit more republican. Republicans flipped or gained 4 New York previously held Democratic house seats, GOP flipped one in New Jersey, no change in Illinois, the Republican flipped or gained 2 previously held Democratic house seats in California. California, New Jersey and New York provided 7 of the 9 seats the Republicans gained last year to regain control of the house. Was it because of the loss of blacks moving south due to bread, butter, roofing issues, you decide?
States that blacks have fled to compare with those states above in which blacks have left.
It's high past time that we start electing Americans to congress and the presidency who put America first instead of their political party. For way too long we have been electing Republicans and Democrats who happen to be Americans instead of Americans who happen to be Republicans and Democrats.
