A recent study from the Brookings Institute, with data updated on February of 2021, shows that 71% of America’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP is a measure of our total economic output) is found in counties that voted for Biden over Trump in the November 2020 election. I would suggest that this trend held and was deepened in last November’s off year elections. The only reason the US Senate is closely divided is because each state is alloted 2 Senators. So Wyoming, Alaska, North and South Dakota get 8 Republican Senators representing a total of 2.9 million people with less economic output than the island of Manhattan. While New York gets 2 Democratic Senators representing 19.3 million people. So why did the House of Representatives flip to Republican leadership? The answer is Gerrymandering. A nasty little game of drawing non-competitive congressional districts so that representatives pick voters instead of voters picking their representatives. Republican state legislatures play this game with ruthless abandon.
But increasingly economic and political power is swinging towards the Democrats. The recently passed Respect For Marriage Act got bipartisan support (61 yeas/36 nays in the Senate). The new laws requires that all 50 states acknowledge that any marriage be recognized as a lawful marriage everywhere. So a same sex or interracial couple married in New York, remains legally married no matter where they might relocate, anywhere in the country.
Corporations with goods and services to sell are aware of these trends, and are becoming increasingly uncomfortable with Republican cultures wars. Television ads reflect an America that’s mixed race and not necessarily sexually binary. Progressive family values are good for business. Voters consume, and consumers vote.