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Red States Should Not Fear Success

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) speaks at a campaign event in Waco, Texas, October 18, 2024.

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There’s a long-running economic and demographic trend in the United States of businesses and people moving to the Sun Belt. Those states tend to be Republican. With the exception of New Mexico, every state located entirely south of Virginia currently has a Republican-controlled state legislature. And New Mexico was also the only one of those states that did not give its electors to Donald Trump, assuming Trump’s lead in Arizona, which has yet to be called, holds.

This trend should be encouraging for Republicans. It’s a sign that Republican policies are successful.

Dominic Pino

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Dominic Pino

Dominic Pino is a former economics editor and Thomas L. Rhodes Fellow at National Review and the former host of the American Institute for Economic Research podcast Econception.

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