2010 Census Data: Population Shifts Suggest Continued Bad News for Dems
**Written by Doug Powers
The 2010 Census data may prove to be a final verdict on the undeniable failure of the all-too-lengthy liberal experiment, because Americans are fleeing traditional Democrat strongholds like Tokyo residents from Godzilla:
WASHINGTON – The 2010 census report coming out Tuesday will include a boatload of good political news for Republicans and grim data for Democrats hoping to re-elect President Barack Obama and rebound from last month’s devastating elections.
The population continues to shift from Democratic-leaning Rust Belt states to Republican-leaning Sun Belt states, a trend the Census Bureau will detail in its once-a-decade report to the president. Political clout shifts, too, because the nation must reapportion the 435 House districts to make them roughly equal in population, based on the latest census figures.
Texas had the biggest gain and is expected to pick up four more House seats as a result. New York and Ohio were the biggest losers.
Combine this with last month’s elections that turned many state legislatures “red” — the same legislatures that will re-draw district maps — and there hasn’t been worse news for Democrats since The West Wing was canceled.
In the big picture, there are two ways Democrats can deal with this: Admit that their tax-happy, regulation-loving, fiscally incompetent, union favoring, public sector nurturing, debt ridden, sharp edges rounded off, politically correct, smoke free, salt free, fat free, common sense-free social and economic experiments have been colossal disasters — or they can continue to try to nationalize every aspect of America and pursue the extinction of greener pastures as fast as possible so people have nowhere which to escape. Which will it be?**
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That is, indeed a stupid question.
bho’s annus horribilis.
good post Doug, tks for the good news also, two good news happenings in two days, are the libs aware of this? They help to offset the oh so many intrusions into our private lives the libs are so adamant about carrying out.
Let’s not count our chickens before they hatch. Just because those people move doesn’t mean they aren’t still left wing nut cases. Ask the native born Oregonians and Washatonians what happened when all the Californians started moving north?
CA and NY have had a monopoly on the legislation. I will look forward to any reduction in power. Nothing better than watching 2 dems fighting for the same seat because their districts merged.
What’s bad for the Democrats is good for America.
With the redistricting coming up I pray that the Dems and Liberals do not have a strong hold on the process.
Remember when the Dem’s plan was to elect and appoint Secretary of States and election boards and other ground level positions into their way of thinking so they can have the low level control to benefit their way of life?
BTW what is Steele doing ?
Meaningless. All it means in LIBERAL IDIOTS spread their mental disease Southward and desaturate solid Conservative area. I think it may even be a conspiracy to dilute the red states. Maybe it won’t take effect by 2012, but it will by 2016.
Liberals spread like a virus.
It does not follow that because the population from liberal states move to “conservative” states that conservatives will benefit. Just ask New Hampshire, Florida, Missouri, Mississippi, South Carolina and other states whose populations swelled with liberal expatriates.
Okay so Texas is now going to be diluted by importing more Dems who are running away from their wreckage. That makes Texas very much like California” Mexican illegals from the south and liberal socialists from the north. The result will be the same: more votes for the Democrats.
You know the Texas rule, once Dems invade run away! “Forget the Alamo! Run!” “Give Texas back to Mexico!”
Are conservatives finally going to find the spine to stand their ground and fight? How about a conservative invasion of California? Let’s fight for the good states where the power lies, not the small backwater states who are an after-thought where political power is concerned.
BTW Doug, why haven’t you fled Michigan yet? Your state is worse than CA as is Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. Why is it that only California conservatives are supposed to run away and surrender their state to Mexico?
The Virus Horribilis goes with them. What we NEED is to send Liberals (Virus Horribilis) to the blue states and rescue what ever Conservatives (Citizens Americanus). Concentrate the Liberals (Virus Horribilis) in as few states as possible. If modern medicine can save the Liberals (Virus Horribilis) from their sick and evil ways is to be seen. As with polio and smallpox until a cure or vaccine is developed all we can do is isolate the poor devils from the Healthy Conservatives (Citizens Americanus).
Janet Napolitano was a Sneak In Liberal (Virus Horribilis) as was Juan McCain. Now too Arizona is infected, sigh.
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The big news in the census is the CA is no longer gaining population and is likely losing it right now.
And just to be clear, the “rust belt” state I live in (PA) is gaining population, just not as fast as Texas and some other states. People are actually fleeing the most liberal states like NY and now CA.
Trying to spin it as the same old story of the “rust belt” losing population, and the “sun belt” gaining isn’t working for you AP. It’s liberal states losing population while conservative states gain. I expect it to become more pronounced as states like CA and NY go bankrupt and stop handing out all the freebies.
The question is whether those leaving are libs or conservatives. We conservatives are always being advised to leave Mexifornia as the country of really, really smart people prepare to surrender the best parts of America first.
Texas is gaining the lion’s share of these migrants so I expect the same rules will apply to them when the rest of the country advises those whiny Texans to run away and surrender their state to Mexico.
As you can tell, I think that attitude of running away is stupid, stupid, stupid. Let’s see some of that “Don’t take my guns!” bravado carry over into “Don’t take my state!”. It’s all BS.
Wish that fit in a tweet – it bears repeating
It is my understanding that it is those people who are educated, working and productive that are fleeing California. The exit numbers would be greater but are being offset by the poor and illegals entering the state.
I think there is more hope for any of the states you mentioned over California other than maybe Illinois.
Disclaimer: This answer is known to the State of California to cause cancer in mice if fed to them by the barrel.
LOL at Pasaden Phil. He’s just bitter because Texas > California.
Put me in the camp that doesn’t see this as good news. The Democrats retain control of the blue states, while turning the red states purple.
If nothing else, this heavily favors the Democrats in the Senate. It doesn’t matter how much a state shrinks, they still get their two Senators.
Here in CA, we aren’t in denial about the state of affairs. In Texas, despite having lost 2/3s of your state to illegals and liberals and the wave of new people, you still hold on fast to that provincialism that makes everyone mock Texans as blowhards. In five years, Texas will California. You can then follow the advice of your fellow Texans to California: leave.
I’ve been everywhere in this country and I swear that other than San Francisco and the Boston area, Texas is the most provincial area in the US. If thought Texas was better than CA I would live there now. Almost half of my book of clients is in Texas so it’s not about making a living. I am standing my ground and we’ll see how many of you Texans are still there once the reality settles in that you are now hopelessly outnumbered by illegals and liberals.
You forgot sugar-free
NOVA (northern Virginia) has been out voting ROVA (rest of Virginia) for a few years now. The last 2 Gov’s before McDonnell and both Democrat Senators owe their elections to transplants from elsewhere. Virginians did not elect such trash. People moving here from the toxic waste dumps of the northeast, (NY, NJ, CT, MA) have turned this once conservative state into a crossover. Va was carried by Owebowmao in ’08, the first time a Democrat has carried VA since 1964.
Illegal aliens are skewing demographics and voting in every state. It has to be stopped before we lose the country.
BWAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA
Stop, yer killin’ me. You’re in denial about being in denial. Or not being in denial. Or something.
I understand Sacramento is negotiating to cede Califruityland to Mexico for a case of Corona and some frijoles. The Mexicans may just be dumb enough to go for it.
Pasadena Phil said:
People the world over mock America, too. It comes with the territory of being better than the rest. Envy isn’t a pretty thing.
Pasadena Phil said:
We’ll see. But at least you acknowledge that Texas > California.
Pasadena Phil said:
Sadly, I’ve already had to leave Texas (against my will). You see, it is hard to get certain positions in Texas, because no one wants to leave Texas, and everyone wants to come to Texas (picture California, but the opposite, lol).
The competition is much less steep in most other states. There, they have to entice people to move there.
And this is why Democrats move to red states, but conservatives don’t move to blue states. Why would a conservative want to move to a state that has been run into the ground?
The Democrats move to red states for the same reason parasites want to move to a new host after sucking dry their old host.
I have lived in California all my life, and I love it, I just don’t love the STATE politics. I live in the central valley, where for the most part, we have conservative values. I would be happy in CA if we didn’t have to deal with Pelosi and Boxer, just as conservatives in Nevada have to deal with Reid, those in Massechusets(pardon the spelling) didn’t have to deal with Kennedy all those years, etc. the list of states can go on.
Dems love bad news. They eat it like candy. They function on how bad they can make things. If they can make really bad things happen to our REPUBLIC, that is their end goal. The public (generally) will not care about bad news. They will steep themselves in nonsense like Dancing and Idol to block out the idea that their candidate is an empty suit but has the catchiest slogan (which is all that matters since that is how we learned to vote all through high school).
No, they will continue to function by buying off Repubs, unions and stoopid people.
/obvious off
In a reverse-dust-bowl-migration, many of them are moving here to Oklahoma.
Back then, they called us “Okies” as an insult. What should we call them now?
Democrats: Boy these new earplugs are great! You can hardly hear the plaintive cries of the mewling spawn!
Let’s not forget the court battles that will ensue. Those Republican meanies are taking away our god-given gerrymandered districts. Wa-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-h-h-h-h-h!
Trust me. The redistricting plan isn’t over.
When Biden heard of these plugs he thought they were cool new hip things people were using to accentuate their hair plugs.
Ears – the only place that Joe Biden is growing new hair!
I’m trying to recreate my late 70′s “Disco” afro, but damn, ear hair grows slow!
Hmm so how is being “Pro Choice” and treating the gay lifestyle as normal working out for you? Some would see this as a blueprint for extinction.
I too am cautious about celebrating a migration of liberals to conservative areas. The people don’t change they just bring their failed ideas with them. Fortunately they settle down in the urban areas to further ruin them but they still hold incredible power. Their centralized power base in the larger cities can often offset the votes cast throughout the rest of the state. Dems very rarely campaign outside of Atlanta in Georgia since that is the only area they need to take to ensure election and explains why Georgia has had it’s first Republican governor and now it’s second since Reconstruction. Our representatives in congress also illustrate this. We have 3 reps from Atlanta, all Democrats while the other 10 for the state are all Republicans. There was one other Democrat but he lost his reelection bid this year.
Did anyone see the 60 Minutes segment on the impending implosion next year of dozens of state and municipal governments? Chris Christie was on fire and CBS actually let him talk.
Maybe there is some good news coming for the country, if adults finally get a chance to run it for the first time in 50 years.
On December 20th, 2010 at 9:12 am, Rogue Cheddar said:
Damn, I miss all that polyester, the “Dirty Bump”, and disco balls.
I still cannot understand why that is not illegal. What is the point of having free and “democratic” elections if they are rigged from the git-go? By definition they are not elections, they are pre-determined appointments, many of them for a lifetime.
It may be better to offer a grub stake and one-way tickets to Mexico or Liberia.
And don’t forget their secret friend Mr Gerry Mander, coming to a city near you. Again. Why do you think ACORN tried to get their people all over the census? Manipulated demographic and population data is used to gerrymander districts – just like they used “Project Vote” is to “get out the vote” – for liberal candidates only.
Take a look at GA 13th in Atlanta, courtesy of far left Congross man David Scott. A bizarre looking crescent covering parts of 8 counties that makes no sense unless you overlay a demographic and average income map. Moving a district boundary a half mile here and there changes elections. Sometimes even a few blocks.
This is one thing the Dems are very adept at. They know where their people are and how to use them.
What’s interesting here is that you will see the latter two states go in very different directions. OH has hope now that they’ve elected a budget hawk as governor (John Kasich). NY will just keep on taxin’.
You shoulda seen me, I was a “Bumping” mofo with my midriff shirts with the “Robo” collars with the tight hiphuggers and 3 foot bell bottoms and 6 inch platform shoes, wearing chunks of man jewelry, and reeking of “Jovan” musk! I was the Shiznit before Shiznit was a word! Now I spend my nights reclining in the Barcalounger yelling at the kids “Don’t you make me get out of this chair!” (sigh)
The coming battles in the state houses should be monitored closely, as these elected officials are easily targeted for defeat in reelection. Targeting rinos in primaries, and dems in general elections at the state level is one way to change the dynamics of Sacramento or Albany. It is a long term task, but one conservatives should work towards. You Governors of “vacation” states, Fla, Ariz, Nev, Montana, etc, should very carefully monitor your voting roles to eliminate double voters, Like the NY/Fl, NY/N. Car, Cal/Ariz, Cal/Nev voters.
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HI PASADENA PHIL–#19. Yes–your California would still be the world’s 8th biggest economy if it were a country. But the bad economic decisions continue to worsen the employment and business pictures.
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I talked with an ex Texan who has been working in the California movie industry as a production assistant for the last 15 years. He painted a pretty bleak picture of his industry–continued loss of work to India’s Bollywood and to Canadian production companies.
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And he also notices the continued anti-business tax and environmental stupidity that is forcing more businesses out of your state. He started in Austin, Tx. long ago–and may be forced to move soon. He expects a real bankruptcy epidemic in the state to occur next year.
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John Bibb
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You people amaze me. You keep calling for people to abandon these places and retreat to your (fill in the blank) place but the cancer will never stop. When they ruin one place they just move on. And they will come for your Valhalla too. Many of you experts on here don’t do much research. CA is not the lib haven you make it out to be. For proof, do a little research into how folks are registered. I agree with those on here wondering how much of the US you guys are willing to surrender. Remember the Alamo! You shlubs.
MacEamonn,
The old “blame the Californians for wreaking havoc on our state is just old and tired. You have plenty of home grown libbys that screw the vote in WA and OR. Stop hiding behind that old diatribe.
#38 On December 20th, 2010 at 10:33 am, Rogue Cheddar said:
Speaking of disco balls, the AMA was recommending for severe cases, that the sufferer should switch from briefs to boxers for a few weeks.
Are you kidding? With those tight hiphuggers, “Commando” was the only way to fly!
Wow, a LOT of bitter Californians here. Of course, if I was from California, I’d be bitter, too.
I think this optimism is misplaced. The population growth in the so called red states is more due to the influx of foreigners, both legal and illegal, and that generally doesn’t bode well for the republicans.
#44 Another lame comment. When you defend the truth it is know as being bitter. I guess coming on here and telling folks to flee a state and accusing an area of getting worse due to an influx of Californians is positive? Trollman, your name is well earned.
Bad news for the dems? Not bad enough I’m afraid. Here is a good cartoon on a far more likely future for the G.O.P.
#43 On December 20th, 2010 at 11:37 am, Rogue Cheddar said:
Hence, bringing us finally to that au naturel, fashion trend setter Commando Cody and the Lost Hair Planet Men.
Definetly describes our illustrious GOP members of the Senate. Its been the stagnant Senate GOP leadership and DIABLO senators operating as the dousers of the flame ignited by the new members of the incoming House, much as they did in ’94 when the GOP got control of the entire CONgress for a decade.
JohnnyDilznik said:
Perhaps you missed my earlier posts where I point out how the liberals go from state to state, destroying everything as they go?
What cracks me up is how some of the Californians here are so arrogant towards everybody else, as if they are better, when in fact their state is the one leading the country off of the cliff.
JohnnyDilznik said:
De-ni-al.
JohnnyDilznik said:
And the reputation of your state is well earned.
That sounds heartless. It’s a proven fact that Disco is bad for the earth’s ecology.
Do you have any idea how many polyesters they had to kill to make just one leisure suit? I don’t even want to go into where all of those “disco balls” came from.
If Texas keeps electing open borders fools like Perry, Cornyn and Hutchinson, they’ll be over run just like CA. If you will not enforce laws against illegals, they will take over, it’s that simple.
Surfing in the morning, skiing in the afternoon. I’m bitter today because it’s raining and I can’t go sit out at the pool under the palm trees.
California has Big Sur:
Big Sur
Texas has Galveston.
Virginia Patriot, you won’t see me defending Perry and his ilk. But let’s face it, the illegal immigration will never be fixed unless the federal government does its job.
The sad fact is, if the federal government refuses to do its job (and prevents anyone from doing their job for them), then it doesn’t matter who the governor is.
Be glad you’re not a traveller stuck at Heathrow Airport for two days, as is my co-worker, wondering if you’ll get a flight home in time for Christmas.
Southpaw said:
The ONLY part about Texas I don’t like is the weather.
And yeah, Galveston has nasty water. I wouldn’t even step in it back when I lived near there.
Of course, I now live by a beach a lot nicer than Galveston. Probably not as nice as CA, but at least I don’t have to worry about falling into the ocean.
Perry ran last time as a border hawk and promptly turned around as soon as he was reelected and started pandering to hispanics. This time he didn’t even bother pretending he cares about illegal aliens. That’s not progress.
You are right, the federal government is responsible, but there is a lot that can be done to put pressure on them, look at AZ. Perry says Texas doen’t need that kind of law………………
Flakes?
Just kiddin’ with ya Trollman. I’ve visited all 50 states & there are nice things about all of them. What I don’t get is why so many Americans are so willing to give up on California, instead of fighting for it.
Commies.
This from the guy who comes on here and systematically insults people. Trollman your arrogance is showing.
JohnnyDilznik said:
Aw man, are you already out of “witty” remarks about my username?
Anyway, let me put it another way. Taking advice from California conservatives about how to stave off the onslaught of liberalism is like taking marriage advice from Elizabeth Taylor.
The population shift is caused by the libs moving out of the areas they have destroyed into more conservative better run areas. Look what the Californians are doing to Colorado!
Wow. I wish this blog was around 70 years ago when we took in all your destitute great-granddaddies and helped them get jobs and make money so they could burp out your grandparents who would then spawn your parents and finally we would get all of you. Your welcome.
Actually, I come from a long line of Texans. You’ll find someone with my last name on Texas’ Declaration of Independence.
I did have an uncle who moved from Texas to California. He has since moved back to Texas.