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Conversations That Matter

Update: Moving From Blue to Red

Conversations That Matter

Jon Harris

Society & Culture

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

People all over the country are moving from blue areas to red areas. Are they thinking through why they are making the move though? 


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0:00.0

Hey everyone want to just give a quick little update. I am in New York right now. It is a crisp clear, beautiful, absolutely gorgeous fall day and it almost makes communism worth it. Let me show you.

0:13.0

New York is a heavily blue state,

0:16.0

but this is right down the street from my house.

0:20.0

It's just absolutely gorgeous here.

0:23.7

And I don't, you know, people you move away from an area come back.

0:27.6

They sometimes realize all the things they took for granted or, you know,

0:30.8

enjoy that they didn't have and I'm no exception to that it's been

0:35.0

about four and a half years almost since I was in this area and now that I'm

0:39.6

back I'm realizing just how beautiful it is so almost makes being in a blue state worth it not

0:45.0

quite almost. New York is of course heavily blue and one of the things that I've

0:50.8

noticed I wanted to just let you know about a little project we're doing and some of the things I'm thinking about it.

0:56.0

As I've gone across the country, I have seen just massive demographic shifts.

1:01.0

The deck is being reshuffled, not just in churches but in geography. So you have people coming from blue areas to red areas, blue states to red states, people moving from California to Tennessee or to Idaho or to Oklahoma as

1:19.7

the case may be. You have people in the northeast moving down to South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida,

1:27.0

Virginia. And the reason that they're doing that is sometimes financial, sometimes they're following family that's down there.

1:35.2

I mean they have their little things in their box, you know, their little box they live in that

1:39.6

in their minds are the reasons they're doing what they're doing. But I think there's obviously I

1:44.2

think it's obvious actually there's way more to this. In the area I live in now it was

1:49.0

heavily read up until very recently both the, the county I live in now

1:53.2

and across the bridge where I grew up,

1:56.6

that county heavily read.

1:58.3

It's Apple Country where I am now.

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