Last week, The New York Times’s Robert Gebeloff and David Leonhardt published an article, “The Growing Blue-State Diaspora,” which made the case that transplants from blue states are making red states purple. “This pattern has played an important role in helping the Democratic Party win the last two presidential elections and four of the last six,” they wrote.
It’s a fascinating hypothesis, but it’s overstated, in our view. CONT.
Harry Enten, FiveThirtyEight