Morris offers the broadest argument yet for how relocation patterns are changing the balance of party politics in the American South. Regardless of where they come from, people who choose to move to places in the South are more likely to affiliate with the Democratic Party than their counterparts who stay behind. This work tells us that the extant Republican domination of southern electoral politics is on borrowed time.
Irwin L. Morris is the Kretzer Distinguished Professor of Humanities and the Executive Director of the School for Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University. His most recent book is Reactionary Republicans: How the Tea Party in the House Paved the Way for Trump's Victory (co-authored with Bryan Gervais).