We’ve commented often about the migratory population shifts happening within the US, mostly from Democrat-dominated states to Republican-dominated states. This morning brings an excellent City Journal article which fairly bristles with statistics making that exact point. Hat tip to RealClearPolicy for the link.
It is even true that birth rates - number of children per adult woman - are higher in red states. This migration implements the Curley effect on a national scale, entrenching Democrats ever more strongly in the states now losing population.
Some are calling this process the Great Sort, as we Americans sort ourselves out ideologically into polities following quite different paths. And with the sort causing blue states to lose congressional seats, and an inflow of census-counted illegal aliens helping to stem that loss, we have an explanation for the otherwise counterintuitive Biden open-borders policy.
If demographics is destiny, we conservatives have reason to celebrate.
