Your challenge is to come up with a POD that would reverse the political orientations of California and Texas, and have the former be solidly Republican and the latter strongly Democratic.
AHC: California a "Red State", Texas a "Blue State"
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I know there's lots of reasons why California votes Democrat, but I think a large chunk of it does come down to being a urbanized, well educated, economically developed and ethnically diverse state. Interestingly enough we're already seeing Texas rapidly transform into a purple state in front of us as it becomes more diverse and it's major cities grow, so I do see it as easy enough to make Texas democrat.
The main problem is that flipping their patterns of development is pretty tough. The main way I could see this happening would be to put Silicon Valley and Hollywood in Texas, which alone would probably make it democratic. How you would do this I'm not sure, but a place with as mild a climate as possible on the coast could well work.
Without silicon valley and Hollywood, I could see California maybe being a swing state. The rural areas are already Republican as it is, and this would probably be a self reinforcing cycle, for example without these industries California would have less immigrants, less diversity and less people with a college degree, all factors which would make it lean Republican. I can imagine central valley farmers having more power in a world like that.
The main problem is that flipping their patterns of development is pretty tough. The main way I could see this happening would be to put Silicon Valley and Hollywood in Texas, which alone would probably make it democratic. How you would do this I'm not sure, but a place with as mild a climate as possible on the coast could well work.
Without silicon valley and Hollywood, I could see California maybe being a swing state. The rural areas are already Republican as it is, and this would probably be a self reinforcing cycle, for example without these industries California would have less immigrants, less diversity and less people with a college degree, all factors which would make it lean Republican. I can imagine central valley farmers having more power in a world like that.
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TX is also severely gerrymandered to maintain GOP dominance in spite of the popular vote.
Mmmm, California, actually, thanks to their nonpartisan district commission. It's just a very Democratic state.
That's so easy it's not a challenge at all. Try better and expand the scope of changes.
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