People can’t flee blue states fast enough

Published December 28, 2024 12:00am ET



Some of the biggest swings away from the Democratic Party and toward President-elect Donald Trump in the November election were not in battleground states. They were in deep blue states where voters most affected by Democratic mismanagement and failure to deliver jobs and public safety took revenge on the blue party by turning to Trump.

New data from the U.S. Census Bureau show that many people vote not just on Election Day but vote with their feet each and every day by moving out of Democrat-controlled blue states to Republican-controlled red states.

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