Younger, more diverse voters could reshape the South and turn Georgia, NC 'purple'

[TexasTowelie]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Election Day ushered in a new era as a younger, more diverse coalition of voters came together with an emphatic message: The South is changing.

The nature of that change varies depending on where you look.

Georgia has become a definitive new battleground, driven by record-breaking mobilization and increasing diversity. President-elect Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee, holds a slim lead in the state. It is tight enough to trigger a recount, but the margin is still something that would have seemed inconceivable a few years ago.

Now Democrats are pinning their long-shot hopes of flipping control of the U.S. Senate to two competitive Georgia runoffs expected in January, a surprising development in a region stacked with red states.

Read more: https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/09/younger-more-diverse-voters-could-reshape-south-politics/6220697002/

[Amishman]

1. The political map is shifting and its going both ways

This election suggests that WI, MI, and PA are going to be much more purple going forward.

FL definitely seems to be getting redder again.

GA, NC, and TX are definitely swinging too, but in our favor.

The concept of demographic inevitability is flawed in a country with a political spectrum as broad as ours. As the political spectrum shifts (we are definitely moving more progressive as a country), so do the parties and balance points. After a short period of upheaval, you get a new equilibrium on the new political center.

[dsc]

2. We are a purple state but I was shocked, and not in a good way, by NC results this time

We did gain seats in the state Senate but lost them in the state House. We lost members of the council of state, we likely lost the US Senate seat. I thought we would win the US Senate seat and likely win Lt Gov (instead we lost both). We also should have gained in both the state House and Senate. I don't know what happened but our very rural nature is likely part of it. But GA is more rural than we are, and the results were much better. Biden won GA, the two Senate seats are in run off, and GA is the only place we actually unseated a GOP US House member without having benefited from a degerrymandering drawing of seats (we gain 2 in NC that way).