[quote=FlyerInHi]That was a good call temecula guy.
I think i have a pretty good pulse of the country. But I missed the disaffection in the industrial east/Midwest.
What you said is true and affected Florida where the the old folks voted for Trump. But in California and new-economy cities and states such as Colorado, Virginia, Nevada, Dallas County, even AZ, economics and demographics overcame the Trump factors.
Despite her shortcomings, Hillary did better than Obama in Georgia, Texas, Arizona, and of course California. I think that Trump is the last stand of the old guard.[/quote]Um, FIH?? Not sure where you are getting your info from but Trump WON all those states but CA … and CO, where he lost by 2.8%. It doesn’t matter what happened in the election (and re-election) of Obama. He is on his way out and so is most of his “legacy.” And Trump would have won CO but for (mostly) “progressive” millenials moving in its most populous counties (with JOBS) since the legalization of MJ (1/1/14) and registering to vote. The exceptions were El Paso (county seat: CO Sprs, which has a high “evangelical” population) and Weld (county seat: Greeley, which has a very high illegal immigrant population which has been stretching the gratuitousness of local charities there for decades). Those two populous counties voted Trump. HRC only won Pueblo County by .2% (199 votes), which is heavily (majority?) Latino and where the bulk of legal MJ is cultivated! CO has the possibility of reverting back to red in the next election cycle.
The reasons are because CO state and local gubments are beyond fed up with the cost of “policing” the sales and use of recreational MJ, in spite of the public coffers its 35% + “sales tax” brings in. The law also created drivers on (often icy) mountainous roads who were impaired and a danger to everyone, sometimes heavily so and also mostly uninsured or relying on Medicaid.
The truth is, new incoming millenials just starting out have been priced out of rent in CO’s blue counties (the counties with CU/CSU and most of the good jobs) for almost 10 years now. Only the well-established boomers from states with higher-priced housing can afford to “retire” in CO and often not even in the county of their choice due to prohibitive cost so they better hurry. Rent and RE prices in most of CO are higher than most of CA except within the priciest coastal enclaves. The areas with cheaper rent/RE prices in the Denver metro area are trailer-park-like transient h@llholes which have beat cops parked on every corner and are an onerous commute to major job centers (especially in the winter). For these reasons, millenials who have not doubled and tripled up in a house/unit with a long term lease that they can live with (or are part of a dual-income couple, BOTH permanently gainfully employed FT) are not going to be able to make it long-term in the Denver area, Boulder County or Larimer County (county seat: Ft Collins).
Once this shift takes place in CO (millenials leave for the likes of [more affordable] KS City and the boomers move in while the getting is good), CO will revert back to red and vote to repeal their short-sighted law to legalize recreational MJ.
I’m intimately familiar with all four corners of CO and everything in between, having lived there for ~10 years in my youth (which was a lo-o-o-o-ong time ago :=0) and making 1-4 road trips through CO nearly every year since then. I’ve spent 35 days there in the last five years in the rockies alone. I was last in CO 2.5 months ago, staying for 6 nights in 3 different counties. I have a full and complete understanding of its people, its culture and the (often stark) differences between its counties.
