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Comment by derstander | Hacker News Reader

That’s almost one whole Wyoming worth of people (~578k in 2021)!

If they went to ID, WY, ND, SD, assuming they are largely D voters, they could potentially flip at least a couple of those states…

Isn't this already beginning to be happening?

No, those are all projected to be very safe Republican states.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/republicans-senate-2024...

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/democrats-senate-chance...

Also, California has the most Republican voters of any state, there is no reason to assume the people leaving are mostly Democrats.

A good point -- a lot of those moving to Montana are moving because they're right leaning.

Still bring that bougie California BS w/ them tho.

Wyoming has a big blue chunk in Jackson Hole Teton County that is mostly multi-multi-billionaires. They are still a rather small population and most are old school democrats. Most of the state are republicans [1] I was a Californian and I am unaffiliated. I meet a lot of former Californians here and like me, most moved here for liberty and not for political reasons. They will not be told what to do and that is most of the population. Here [2] is a transplant to Wyoming that speaks about the state.

Laramie county also has a big chunk of Democrats as it is a college town. ~6000 of that 7815 are the students and I assume most of the rest are staff members

[1] - https://sos.wyo.gov/Elections/Docs/VRStats/2023/23FebVR_Stat...

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/c/TheWyomingProject/videos

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