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| The Realignment of America | |
| 2007-09-08 | |
BY MICHAEL BARONE | |
| Posted by:lotp |
| #5 Without illegal immigrants, the number of seats allocated to blue regions would shrink, since those are the regions with huge inflows of immigrants and outflows of native born Americans. Is it just me or is there something that barely skirts treason the the foregoing equation? |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-09-08 23:00 |
| #4 TT: There was no discussion of how much of that immigrant population was illegal: who in theory should not be able to vote in national elections. The big reason Democrats need illegal immigrants is because seats are allocated based on population. Without illegal immigrants, the number of seats allocated to blue regions would shrink, since those are the regions with huge inflows of immigrants and outflows of native born Americans. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2007-09-08 22:05 |
| #3 There was no discussion of how much of that immigrant population was illegal: who in theory should not be able to vote in national elections. |
| Posted by: Throger Thains8048 2007-09-08 15:29 |
| #2 Joel Garreau's "Nine Nations of North America" missed the imigrant aspect of population shift but it still has a lot of valid viewpoints IMO. |
| Posted by: Cheaderhead 2007-09-08 12:57 |
| #1 obvious to those of us who live in these huge cities. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-09-08 12:10 |