Equality under law is the Great American Promise, stymied for centuries by enslaving human beings and denying their humanity. But those who disagree with that premise are variously moving into the Red states; registering residents to become citizens and to vote; and proposing economic measures to transform the economies of oppression and suppression, maintained on the Lee Atwater principle that the most Deplorable Whites don’t mind how bad off they are
as long as Blacks get hurt worse.
As MLK pointed out in the prelude to I Have a Dream, the check for implementing that dream was returned for decades marked Insufficient Funds. No more. He further told us to give our people the ballot, so that we would no longer have to petition the Federal government for basic human rights.
We. Not “Those People”.
Now, let us consider a strategy proposed on Quora that I discussed yesterday.
Could blues "colonize" a very-low-population red state and thus gain two seats in the Senate? What would it take to succeed?
I wonder which blues the OP has in mind, and which states. But I will answer for the people taken broadly, and the whole country.
- It happened in Virginia, where the DC suburbs have greatly expanded over several decades. Yes, two Democratic Senators.
Other states have regions attracting new residents from out of state, including university towns, and government research centers such as NASA in Texas and Alabama.
Texas is coming into play. Alabama will take somewhat longer.