GOP Tax Cut May Turn Red States Blue Even Faster

[TygrBright]

NYT: The Republican Tax Act Could Turn Texas Blue

So red states with high rates of domestic in-migration such as Arizona, Texas, Georgia, North Carolina and Florida are very likely adding Democrats faster than Republicans — even when taking into account flows of retirees seeking warm Southern weather.

This wouldn’t constitute an urgent problem for Republicans if Mr. Trump’s divisive ethno-nationalist identity politics wasn’t already intensifying nonwhite voters’ disdain for the party. Exit polls in November’s Virginia governor’s race vividly illustrate the party’s perilous electoral position. Ed Gillespie, an establishment Republican, won 57 percent of the white vote with a race-baiting Trumpist campaign, but an abysmal 19 percent of the nonwhite vote.

Texas is already a majority-minority state, and its voting-age population will follow suit next year. Arizona is set to flip to majority-minority status in 2023, and Georgia and Florida are set to follow in 2025 and 2028. A more inclusive Republican Party could hold these states indefinitely, but the Trump party’s pivot to white identity populism has used up its slack.

Karma's comin' atcha, GOPpies...

hopefully,
Bright

[muntrv]

1. Trump's treatment of Puerto Rico should accelerate Florida's turn to blue.

[Aristus]

2. You have greater faith in the 'Deliverance' crowd than I do.

One only has to blame everything on Barack Obama, and they'll be right back to their Trump-fellatio...