Remaking The Electoral Map By Moving

The election is over and done with. Much hand-wringing and strategizing is going on in the Democratic party, with the objective of finding a way to get more votes in certain red states. So, I'm wondering: why don't we just get a whole lot of Democrats to move from New York, California, and Massachusetts, where we have large surpluses of them, into Ohio, Nevada and New Mexico? We could take all three of those states just by moving about 60,000 voters out of each of our surplus states. Ohio because it's a big prize and reasonably close, and Nevada and New Mexico because the GOP margins there are very thin. The GOP can't counter this as effectively, because the only significant state where they have a truly overwhelming surplus of voters is Texas. Sure, there's the small matter of jobs and housing, but some well-targeted investments by some of those liberal Hollywood tycoons and by the liberal northeast Universities with huge endowments could go a long way toward dealing with that.

OK... I'm not really serious about this, but then again, I do believe that changes in attitudes (a.k.a. "values") happen best when they happen from within. We who truly have Liberal values don't merely want to win elections and have those values tolerated. We really want our Liberal values to be understood, adopted and integrated with the so-called "traditional' values. We most especially want our values of protection of the weak, freedom of choice, equal opportunity and tolerance to spread throughout society.

Note, please, that I realize how easily my words could be twisted here, but there's a big difference between wanting our values adopted and having an "agenda" or wanting a "lifestyle" adopted. I am in no way saying or implying that we Liberals want to impose any such thing on anyone.

We simply can't rely on campaigning every four years -- and from a distance, at that -- to spread our values, but how to do it?. Just look at the way so-called "traditional" values have spread for the obvious answer. It's evangelism, within the communities that does it best, and until we bring Liberal values to those red state communities, live by them, and prove their value by example, the sharp divide in values between red and blue, Liberal and traditional is going to continue to be a defining characteristic of American society.