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madville (639 posts)           Tue Sep-28-10 11:25 PM
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Why are republican controlled states seeing double digit population growth
   
While Democrat controlled states are seeing single digit growth or none at all? Why are people choosing red states over blue ones to live?
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Hannah Bell   (1000+ posts)             Tue Sep-28-10 11:27 PM
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2. huh? my blue state's population has nearly doubled since 1980, while mississippi's, for example,
   
has barely budged.

i think you're guilty of over-generalization.

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madville (639 posts)           Tue Sep-28-10 11:36 PM
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10. Mississippi has seen 16% growth since 1980, what state are you in?
   
Just to justify your claim of doubling the population.

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madville (639 posts)           Tue Sep-28-10 11:44 PM
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15. So if you look at this
   
Washington is on par with Tennessee   

http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=uspopulation&met=po...

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Hannah Bell   (1000+ posts)             Wed Sep-29-10 12:07 AM
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21. but above these:
   
Edited on Wed Sep-29-10 12:11 AM by Hannah Bell
http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=uspopulation&met=po...


my point being, the poster was overgeneralizing.


http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=uspopulation&met=po...


ps:

washington: 161%
tennessee: 137%

http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=uspopulation&met=po...


it's not about red v. blue. it's about jobs & retirement homes.

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KILL THE WISE ONE   (730 posts)           Tue Sep-28-10 11:31 PM
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5. retirees moving to sun belt
   
Military bases growing in the south, and closing in the north.
Sex education that is not based on abstinence lowers the birth rate.
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Hannah Bell   (1000+ posts)             Tue Sep-28-10 11:36 PM
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9. jobs moving from the rust belt to the sun belt on their way to china,
   
not too hard to understand either.
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scheming daemons   (1000+ posts)             Tue Sep-28-10 11:34 PM
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7. red states are those states that used to be too hot (before air conditioning)
   

Before the invention of air conditioning, who in their right mind would want to live in Arizona? Or Georgia? Or Florida?

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Johonny   (1000+ posts)             Tue Sep-28-10 11:51 PM
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18. that's clearly ture
   
The north and north eastern states had an more friendly climate prior to WW II and air conditioning. I think also the old south post civil war era was a strong discouragement to people who newly immigrated from moving into the south. Either way the whole thing is sort of made up. Calling states blue or red is clearly nonsensical. Is California a red or blue state? It has two Dem senators, but a republican governor? Who's column does that go in?

What is meant by control? Here the top by growth states http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_pop...
and their party in the executive branch

Wyoming (D)
Utah (R)
Texas (R)
Colorado (D)
Alaska (R)
Arizona (R)
Washington (D)
North Carolina (D)
Georgia (R)
South Carolina (R)

So that's 4/6 republican. While Texas looks like say a red state it's had 39 Democratic governors and 6 Republican ones in its history. Once again what does the opening statement even mean? I say this is just a BS talking point that has no clear meaning.

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doc03   (1000+ posts)           Tue Sep-28-10 11:39 PM
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13. I would say mainly because of right to work laws and
   
state governments writing laws that are anti labor and pro business. Why do states controlled by Republicans generally receive more federal money than they pay? Why do states controlled by Republicans have the least educated people and the highest poverty rates?

The last one comes closest to the truth.  People move to where the jobs are. The jobs are in places that have a business friendly government. At least until too many liberals move there and **** it up for everyone.

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Re: Why are republican controlled states seeing double digit population growth
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2010, 01:34:58 AM »
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Johonny   (1000+ posts)             Tue Sep-28-10 11:51 PM
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18. that's clearly ture
   
The north and north eastern states had an more friendly climate prior to WW II and air conditioning. I think also the old south post civil war era was a strong discouragement to people who newly immigrated from moving into the south. Either way the whole thing is sort of made up. Calling states blue or red is clearly nonsensical. Is California a red or blue state? It has two Dem senators, but a republican governor? Who's column does that go in?

What is meant by control? Here the top by growth states http://en.wikipedia.org/w...ist_of_U.S._states_by_pop...
and their party in the executive branch

Wyoming (D)
Utah (R)
Texas (R)
Colorado (D)
Alaska (R)
Arizona (R)
Washington (D)
North Carolina (D)
Georgia (R)
South Carolina (R)

So that's 4/6 republican. While Texas looks like say a red state it's had 39 Democratic governors and 6 Republican ones in its history. Once again what does the opening statement even mean? I say this is just a BS talking point that has no clear meaning.

In the first place, 4/6=2/3, DUmbass, which is 67%.
I counted 6/10 republican, which is 3/5, or 60%

If you had ATTENDED math class in HS, instead of hiding in the boiler room smoking pot with the janitor, you might have realized this.

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Re: Why are republican controlled states seeing double digit population growth
« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2010, 10:07:51 AM »
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(And YES, I said 12.  Think about it.)

Are you insinuating that the DUmp is full of three toed sloths? 

They're overanalyzing.  I yearn to escape New York because I'm sick of being taxed to death and ruled by moonbats and bureaucrats.  It's that simple. 

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Re: Why are republican controlled states seeing double digit population growth
« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2010, 10:17:01 AM »
isn't the intentionally provocative answer, "the population is growing in red states because we don't slaughter the unborn?"

I mean, if you were just hell bent on starting a fight . . .