And that leaves the country perpetually teetering on a knifes edge: The combined vote margin for either party across those purple states has been no greater than two percentage points in any of the past three presidential elections, he calculates. No presidential candidate has won it by more than five percentage points this century. How are these governors and their policy agendas faring in the 2022 elections? The races drew former President Bill Clinton and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, for the Democrats, while U.S. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-California, and Ronna McDaniel, chair of the Republican National Committee, stumped for Republicans. Red-state taxes are generally lower than their blue counterparts. Bailey is one of three downstate Republicans to publicly declare their intentions to take on Pritzker next year. Receive breaking news and original analysis - sent right to your inbox. Not a one-Democrat, one-Republican in the Senate state like Florida was for many years. On any political map, Illinois is a reliable blue state that has elected Democratic governors four of the last five elections and last backed a Republican presidential candidate before Michael Jordan was winning championships in Chicago. By the end of the night, the state Democratic Party had acknowledged in a press release that this was a tough cycle. But in a joint statement, party officials urged their supporters to get back in this fight starting Wednesday. Latinos nationwide trended towards the Republicans, for a variety of reasons. Even if Republicans arent seeing their map expanding into new territory like South Texas, they can still clearly count on rural voters to hold the line against waves of new and potentially liberal voters moving into Texas major cities, said Landry, the West Texas college professor. Abbott did a really good job of tying ORourke with Biden and the border crisis and them being on the same page, and voters bought it.. Send questions and comments about this story to feedback@stlpublicradio.org. Florida just does whatever it wants though and is impossible to predict, especially this far out. (April 26), Get a digest of our takes on current events every day, Democrats still face daunting historical odds, voted Democratic only once in a presidential election since 1948, not occupied both U.S. Senate seats since 1952, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. Well, I found out this morning, shes on a ventilator., When asked if he knows anyone who has succumbed to the illness, Spencer said, Oh yeah, I know a lot of people thats died from COVID.. His public schedule has had a distinct downstate flavor since the summer. Independents are closely divided between the two. To the extent that planning to move may require at least three of those steps, not very many respondents are close to moving. Admittedly, many of those 86 counties are sparsely populated. Get the latest. There was a lot of posturing by some Republicans that theyd hit the trifecta in South Texas by taking all three seats, so Democrats have felt maybe a tiny bit of relief at that, Cross said. Why does this happen? PROVIDENCE, R.I. Republicans are pressing their advantage deep into Democratic territory in the closing stretch of the 2022 campaign, competing for an abundance of House seats amid growing. Holding incumbents accountable is complicated, though, in a system where policy authority is divided across multiple layers and branches of government, and partisanship seems to be more important than actually evaluating a governors performance. Life expectancy is nearly three years greater in the blue (80.1 years) than the red (77.4) states. The prediction was purple. economies people flocked to red states and abandoned blue ones in 2022. Although Texas is on the cusp of turning blue, these same lawmakers banned abortion after about six weeks and restricted voting rights, culminating in possibly the most conservative legislative. Well, let me start with, I think Im more favored than you think I am, the governor said before ticking off a series of accomplishments in Springfield that figure to be the spine of his reelection messaging. Importantly, the majority of Texans oppose recent conservative priorities. Many residents of these states are considering moving elsewhere, most frequently those (such as Republicans in California and New York) who disagree with their states dominant political orientation. Independent candidate Betsy Johnson managed to curry favor with 19% of pollsters by comparison. Our findings indicate that both candidates can count on the support of vast majorities of their own parties, with Newsom losing slightly more Democrats than DeSantis loses Republicans. Claremont, CA 91711 Yet, concerns about personal finances do not appear to be driving voting decisions in the gubernatorial races in these states. Disclosure: University of Houston has been a financial supporter of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that is funded in part by donations from members, foundations and corporate sponsors. Period.. As a follow-up, we asked Democrats to choose head-to-head between Harris and Newsom. If you put together the city and the suburbs, thats a winning combination for any candidate. The four mega-states have established rival and increasingly polarized visions of state governmentone blue, the other red. That can't be good," Chishti said. Specifically, Republicans are more likely to want to leave California and New York and more Democrats are more likely to want to leave Texas and Florida. We also asked Republican respondents to choose head-to-head between DeSantis and Trump. Each of these 10 states is projected to shed one seat:. Read: Americas red-blue divide is about to get starker. Republicans also seemed poised to add slightly to their majorities in the Texas Legislature, where theyve controlled both chambers for 20 years, and held large leads in all statewide judicial races. DeSantis, wrote one Democratic respondent, is crazy.. The hardening difference between red and blue, Podhorzer maintains, empowers the 10 purple states (if you include Arizona and Georgia) to decide which of the two superpower nations values, Blue or Red, will prevail in presidential and congressional elections. During the U.S. Presidential Election in 2000, journalist Tim Russert used the terms "red state" and "blue state" based on the colored maps used during his televised coverage of the election. Later, in a survey by WBEZ, he was among only a handful of Illinois legislators who would not publicly state their vaccination status. In this match-up, DeSantis barely edges out Newsom, 51-49%. The flurry of socially conservative laws that red states have passed since 2021, on issues such as abortion; classroom discussions of race, gender, and sexual orientation; and LGBTQ rights, is widening this split. I couldnt buy a job now if I wanted one in the line of construction, because nobody wants a Democrat on their property.. You can read diverse opinions from our Board of Contributors and other writers on the Opinion front page, on Twitter @usatodayopinion and in our daily Opinion newsletter. Yet, many Democrats also shared this concern. My dad would often come home from work shortly before my mom headed out for her late-night shift as a nurse. But the big story remains that blue states are benefiting more as the nation transitions into a high-productivity, 21st-century information economy, and red states (apart from their major metropolitan centers participating in that economy) are suffering as the powerhouse industries of the 20th centuryagriculture, manufacturing, and fossil-fuel extractiondecline. that, using census data, found from April 2020 to July 2021, the top states for inbound migration were Florida, Texas, Arizona, the Carolinas, and Tennessee. Her Democratic opponent and former Speaker of the House, Tina Kotek, is no longer in the lead. But because I wouldnt say anything about guns and abortion, oh, they was deathly against me, Spencer said. Iowa, Ohio, and ME-2 are trending red and have gone pretty deep in that direction, Texas is trending blue but the Democrats still aren't getting as much of the vote there as in NC. As a consequence of the nations deep polarization and geographic partisan sorting, the governors of all four states, and the policies they advance, are safe. Democrats blamed Republican-appointed regulators for failing to prepare the grid for disasters. A 13-year-old girl named Meilin turns into a giant red panda whenever she gets too excited. Rose Professor of State and Local Government So I went to work at Walmart, he said. While interesting for a variety of reasons, match-ups including Biden or Trump do not cause respondents to consider the possibility of a governor introducing a blue or red state model to the nation as a whole. Director of Polling, Rose Institute of State and Local Government Instead, the poll seeks to highlight the levels of early support for Newsom compared to Hochul and DeSantis compared to Abbott, and to explore how DeSantis is faring as a potential successor (or challenger) to Trump. One-party hegemony in these states also allows their governors to build robust policy records they can wield when stepping onto the national stage. [4] In that match-up, Harris leads Newsom 56-44%. To truly feel the effects of a demographic change, whether its young voters or new people coming in from perhaps more liberal states, people are going to have to turn out to vote, Cross said. Specifically, Texas is expected to pick up three seats; Florida two; and Arizona, Colorado, Montana, North Carolina and Oregon one each. As functionally one-party polities, these states can pursue aggressive policy agendas, but they also risk overreaching and alienating residents who dont subscribe to their dominant political values. On the ground, John Spencer sees everything exactly as Poshard lays out. That's one of the revealing facts in the Census Bureau's annual assessment of U.S. migration released last week. The 16 counties Pritzker won was the most by a Democratic gubernatorial candidate since Rod Blagojevichs 2006 reelection, when he raked in double that amount. For more information, visit www.roseinstitute.org. "COVID isn't a red state or blue state issue. Thats the same kind of feeling that the Democrats have in Texas, that Democrats have in Utah, that you have a state that is not responsive to your needs. Founded in 1973 at Claremont McKenna College, the Rose Institute is one of the nations leading academic centers focused on the study of state and local government. The differences among states in the Donald Trump era, he writes, are very similar, both geographically and culturally, to the divides between the Union and the Confederacy. By Nicole Narea @nicolenarea Nov 11, 2022, 10:04am EST Butthe Texas I know is Black and brown, withmore than 50% of the states population being Black, Latinoor Asian. Florida added one seat, and Texas added two. "The migrants are being used as pawns in a politically charged election, intentionally sowing chaos so the governors can say, 'You're getting a taste of your own medicine.'. However, we present in this graph only the preferences of respondents who belong to the candidates party, and omit the responses of independents and anyone who expressed a cross-party preference.[3]. But the party couldnt replicate it this time around, in spite of ORourke again leading the ticket as well as lingering anger over the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection by Trump supporters and a widely criticized law enforcement response to the May 24 school shooting in Uvalde. It seems unlikely that the Trump-era Republicans installing the policy priorities of their preponderantly white and Christian coalition across the red states will be satisfied just setting the rules in the places now under their control. In a private newsletter that he writes for a small group of activists, Podhorzer recently laid out a detailed case for thinking of the two blocs as fundamentally different nations uneasily sharing the same geographic space. Moreover, the elections may give momentum to at least two of these governorsNewsom and DeSantisto sell their states competing visions to the nation by running for president in 2024. AEI, a center-right think tank, said that empirical evidence suggests that domestic migration patterns in the US do reflect Americans and firms voting/moving with their feet from Democratic-controlled, high-tax, business-unfriendly, fiscally unhealthy, economically stagnant states with relatively high electricity and housing costs to Republican-controlled, lower-tax, more business-friendly, fiscally healthy and economically vibrant states with lower electricity and housing costs.. released on Monday by the National Association of Realtors. Abbott appeared likely to win by a similar margin as in 2018 possibly larger. Republicans and Democrats are battling for control over Congress, while many states are busy holding gubernatorial elections to appoint a new state leader. It turns out Cuomo is counting on a Democratic controlled Congress to repeal the provision in President Trump's 2017 tax overhaul which capped the federal tax deduction for state and local taxes . Rural Texas still rules the day. We're splitting into a red and blue country. That progress, though, stopped after 1980, and the gap remained roughly unchanged for the next three decades. Nationally and in Illinois, thats concerning, Jacobson said. re: Red states that will eventually turn Blue? The country's blue state exodus is shaking up demographics in red states that are serving as landing spots. That's devastating for blue states, and could soon tip the balance of power in Congress in 2022. The Blue States and the Red States are referred to as states of the U.S. whose voters predominantly choose either the Democratic Party (Blue) or Republican Party (Red) for Presidential and Senatorial Candidates. And it was another rebuke of Democratic gubernatorial nominee Beto ORourke, who lost his third election in four years. This is not a metaphor; it is a geographic and historical reality., To Podhorzer, the growing divisions between red and blue states represent a reversion to the lines of separation through much of the nations history. Rev. That year, during his first run for the White House, the former Illinois legislator and U.S. senator won 46 counties in his home state. He said state patronage jobs are no longer being doled out to high-achieving Democratic political workers. When we think about the United States, we make the essential error of imagining it as a single nation, a marbled mix of Red and Blue people, Podhorzer writes. In the meantime, a new generation of potential presidential contenders is taking shape. Follow him on Twitter:@chrischudeleon. The Trump model, in other words, is more the South in 1850 than the South in 1950, more John Calhoun than Richard Russell. A state with a higher urban population is going to be bluer than a state with a rural population. by Karen Brooks Harper The same data show that four additional states lean toward being Democratic states. Predicting three states flipping blue to red, four or more Senate seats blue to red and at least 60 house seats blue to red. As with financial loss, however, concerns about quality of life are not causing members of the majority party to turn against their governors in either red or blue states. This comes after Donald Trump won Georgia by six points in 2016. Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Pritzkers count greatly exceeded the four counties Democrat Pat Quinn won in his 2010 election and the lone county that lined up with him in his unsuccessful 2014 reelection. #orpol pic.twitter.com/Tdw0acrwj0, Christine Drazan (@ChristineDrazan) August 9, 2022. Tesla CEO Elon Musk made waves in 2021 when he announced that he was relocating the electric car giants headquarters from the tech hub of Silicon Valley in California to Austin, Texas. No Democratic-controlled state has passed any of those measures. Texas has started taking public donations to defray some of the $7 million it has spent on buses since April. The shooting of 19 children and two adults at a Uvalde elementary school in May touched off criticism of Republicans support of gun rights and gave Democrats hope that voters would agree the GOP had failed Texas children by repeatedly refusing over the years to limit access to firearms. In November 2020, when he ran for the Illinois Senate, he built on that margin, winning 77% of the vote. Republicans are on a long winning streak in Florida, even if their victories have been by small . These maps offer a chance to look beneath the. The States Of the Blue Wall. I was born in Houston to immigrants from Hong Kong and Mexico. The rest were either undecided or preferred someone other than the top three candidates. Thats a reversal from the middle decades of the 20th century, when the basic trend was toward greater convergence. Many of the cities and states that saw their economies bounce back the most from the pandemic-induced slump were those with Republican leaders, who were typically more likely to undo restrictions as they saw them as too excessive. Drazan has thus far focused her campaign on issues such as public safety. Bailey, whose home county was represented by a Democrat less than 20 years ago, regards himself as a direct byproduct of downstates hardening red hue, a trend he attributes to a decline in moral integrity and fiscal integrity by those in power, particularly Democrats. To put the states seismic political weight into perspective, based on thecurrent electoral map, Democrats could loseArizona,Florida,Michigan,Ohio,Pennsylvaniaand Wisconsin and still take the White House if they won Texas. In 2020, Democrats improved their margin by 3.3percentage points from 2016. For example, if a state has a FiveThirtyEight partisan lean of R+5, that means it is 5 percentage points more Republican-leaning than the nation as a whole. Same Since 2000: After 2020 Election That doesn't mean that a Republican can't . In terms of sheer volume, the Sunshine State was followed by Texas, the Carolinas, Tennessee, Georgia, Arizona, and Idaho. But the South Texas results robbed Republicans of the hoped-for narrative that Hispanic voters were abandoning Democrats in droves. It's official: Florida is a red state The former swing state is now a lost cause for Democrats. Either way, Nevada is the exception that proves the rule: The three blue states with the lowest vaccination rates Arizona (45 percent), Nevada (44 percent) and Georgia (38 percent) are also the three blue states with the highest hospitalization rates, as well as three that Trump came closest to winning in 2020. Among likely voters: in California, 91% of Democrats are for Newsom; in New York, 89% of Democrats are for Hochul; in Texas, 95% of Republicans are for Abbott; and, in Florida, 97% of Republicans are for DeSantis. Data for 2022 are likely to show "massively more divergence", predicts Mr Warshaw. Voters returned GOP incumbents to their jobs at the top of the ticket and handed the states dominant party its 14th consecutive sweep of statewide offices. House Republicans are increasingly confident they can make unexpected inroads into some solidly Democratic congressional districts, including in some of the bluest states in the country: California, Connecticut, New York, Oregon and Rhode Island. The governors of all four states have positioned themselves to win reelection in 2022 by retaining the support of members of their states dominant party, rendering opposition by people outside that party largely irrelevant. Yet, some respondents may be taking more concrete steps toward actually leaving. Spencer, who has been involved in Democratic politics since the early 1990s, said his party affiliation has not been a helpful calling card for him in his community. (626) 376-1105, Kenneth P. Miller, J.D., Ph.D. As the Nov. 3 election approaches, debate over which way Texas will lean has led voters to question if Texas is becoming a "purple" state.Having been strictly Republican (red) since 1976 in the presidential elections, Texas now has an increasing number of Democratic (blue) voters in the prediction polls. By Ava Dunwoody | Staff Writer. For all the stresses of the last four years, the vast majority of voters in each state who identify with the incumbents party are going to remain loyal to the incumbent. If Democrats have anything to show for this election, its that they won two of three congressional seats up for grabs in South Texas denying Republicans their hopes of statement victories in a heavily Hispanic region. All Rights Reserved. I wont get that for nothing. With Rosalie Chiang, Sandra Oh, Ava Morse, Hyein Park. But then again, that is how a democracy works, he said, and Im not sure what there is to be done about it.. Republicans and Independents stayed home. Since that election, the media have . The Texas I know is young, withnearly halfof the state being younger than 35. (Key moments in that revolution included the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts and the Supreme Court decisions striking down state bans on contraception, interracial marriage, abortion, and, much later, prohibitions against same-sex intimate relations and marriage.). Get it Mar 13 - 28. In California, for all its dissatisfied people, only 2% had taken all four actions. As a result, Texas might seem like a lost cause to Democrats across the nation. With some complex but telling statistical calculations, he documents a return to historical patterns from the Jim Crow era in which the dominant party (segregationist Democrats then, conservative Republicans now) has skewed the playing field to achieve a level of political dominance in the red nation far beyond its level of popular support. Those states are: California Conencticut Delaware Hawaii Illinois Maryland Massachusetts Minnesota New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Rhode Island Vermont Washington. The association had pumped $15 million into Florida in the previous two election cycles. New York had the largest overall decline in its population share, a 0.9% drop. Lower taxes, Republican legislatures, and stronger Meanwhile, many Republicans described concerns about politics and policy, while very few Democrats did. Double your gift when you give by 6 p.m. Thursday. (Williamson County, where the city is located, swung in favor of Rauner by 19 percentage points in 2018.). Conversely, in each state, no more than 5% overall said they were financially much better off. Others might be thinking of moving to adjacent states for jobs or family. There is, however, reason to be hopeful. Your donation keeps our trusted reporting free and accessible for all Texans and during a legislative session when lawmakers are set to tackle issues from school choice for K-12 students to school safety improvements to changes in property taxes, its critical that Texans know what lawmakers decisions mean for their futures. Lilliana Mason, a Johns Hopkins University political scientist, told me that the experience of Jim Crow segregation offers an important reference point for understanding how far red states might take this movement to roll back civil rights and libertiesnot that they literally would seek to restore segregation, but that they are comfortable with a time when states had laws so entirely different that they created a form of domestic apartheid. An emergency declaration is a powerful tool we need to help homeless Oregonians. Texas opened doors for my family, but Republicans whohold all statewide offices and both U.S. Senate seats are now trying to slam the door shut, lock itand throw away the key. California and New York have become national catalysts for progressive policies, while Texas and Florida have become the most powerful advocates of conservative alternatives. Grumbach reached a similar conclusion in a recent paper analyzing trends in small-d democracy across the states. The GOP won the governorship. 6 min read. *Note: This report was updated on November 8, 2022 to correct an insignificant typographical error. Because of that, he said, the labor vote in some areas downstate is trending Republican. The red nation would rank third. In this environment, it should not be surprising that large numbers of respondents in all four states (about one-third in CA, NY, and FL; nearly one-half in TX) described themselves as worse or much worse off financially than they were two years ago. No gubernatorial candidate since at least the Roaring 20s posted a winning margin that large in Cook County. Thats the provocative conclusion of Michael Podhorzer, a longtime political strategist for labor unions and the chair of the Analyst Institute, a collaborative of progressive groups that studies elections. Democrat Joe Biden lost it by less than 3.5 . Find a complete list of them here. Georgia, once a strongly Republican state, has turned blue. Spencer drew only 18 percent of the vote. . For nearly a century, in 25 races for the Executive Mansion, Republicans outpolled Democrats in more counties 22 times during that span, a WBEZ analysis of election data going back to 1924 showed. Leading up to the 2022 midterms, much economic news has been troubling, especially regarding inflation. Undergirding that advantage, he argues, are laws that make registering or voting in many of the red states more difficult, and severe gerrymanders that have allowed Republicans to virtually lock in indefinite control of many state legislatures. Approximately 36% of respondents supported the Republican, while just 34% threw their hat behind Kotek instead. In California, a remarkable 70% of Republicans said they are interested in leaving the state, compared to 27% of Democrats. Bailey is quick to invoke a biblical passage, Proverbs 28:2, to explain himself, his candidacy and where Illinois is at right now: When there is moral rot, a nations government topples easily, but wise and knowledgeable leaders bring stability.. population, states, documentary, blue, red. And quickly. Millions of Americans are fleeing blue states for freer, more prosperous red states. The COVID vaccination rate is about 20 percent higher in the blue section, and the per capita COVID death rate is about 20 percent higher in the red. One Florida resident wrote: Hurricanes and heat plus critters. Another: too hot. Democrats in Texas and Florida had additional reasons, frequently mentioning politics and policy concerns. Those traditional Democrats now go largely to very conservative churches that are opposed to abortion and those sort of things, and theyre spoken about freely in the churches, said Poshard, whose own record of support for gun rights and opposition to abortion dampened Democratic enthusiasm for his gubernatorial bid. A recent poll from Emerson College shows that a typically deep blue state may be on the verge of turning red after November. Census: US population growth 2nd lowest in history, The nation's political center of gravity shifted further to the Republican-led South and West on Monday, with Texas, Florida and other Sun Belt states gaining congressional seats while chillier climes like New York and Ohio lost them. Following the primary, the Texas Democratic Party adopted themost progressiveplatform in state history, including planks of Sanders most transformative policies like Medicare for All and a Green New Deal. 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