Tag: red states

Red States Ramp up Police, Troops Deployments to US Southern Border

Republican-led states are gradually committing more of their state’s National Guard troops and law enforcement officers to support operations to secure portions of the U.S. southern border. The troop and police deployments come as border officials are still evaluating how the repeal of Title 42 impacts cross-border traffic flow into the United States. Following the…


‘Pro-American, Optimistic, Pro-Business’: JP Morgan CEO on His Love for Florida and Texas

Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase, expressed his choice of Florida and Texas for their pro-business approach, suggesting that other states have much to learn from these red states. “We’ve loved Florida. We’re growing in Florida left and right, you know, small businesses, large companies … I’ve forgot how many total employees we have…


Red States Led the Country in Solar and Wind Production in 2022: Report

A new report finds that national renewable energy capacity rose last year, with wind and solar up 16 percent compared to 2021. Red states are leading the United States in both wind and solar power, according to the report by Climate Central, a nonprofit science communication organization. Texas, in particular, is a leader in both solar and wind power,…


San Francisco Mulls End to Red-State Boycott That Hurt Its Finances

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors may soon pull its boycott on conservative red states after the move backfired and hurt the city’s finances as it begins to deal with budget shortfalls. The 2016 ban on municipally funded travel and contracting failed to have any impact on those states’ policies and has caused the city’s…


Florida, the New Capital of Red State America

Commentary In what was an overall frustrating election night for Republicans, in which the oft-predicted “red wave” failed to materialize nationally, there was one state above all that provided a clear beacon of hope. That would be my adopted state of Florida. In the Sunshine State Tuesday evening, Gov. Ron DeSantis cruised to a second…


Red States Fighting ‘Woke’ Banks That Push Anti-Fossil Fuel Policies

Republican states are fighting efforts by certain banks to push environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards that promote, among other progressive agenda, anti-fossil fuel policies. Over the past year, at least 15 Republican-led states have proposed policies or laws that would punish banks for taking an anti-fossil fuel stance. State financial officers from Texas, Arkansas, Utah,…


More Companies Join the ‘Great Migration’ to Red States

Amidst predictions of a political “red wave” in the upcoming mid-term elections, an economic wave has been building for years with no end in sight as companies flood out of blue states and into red states. And as a result of its political divisions, America appears to now be dividing itself into prosperous, high-growth states…


Slowly but Surely, Red States Are Getting Redder

Commentary I have written before—and am writing in more detail in my (slowly) forthcoming book “The Southbound Train”—how the new political migrants to red states from blue are often more devoted constitutional conservatives than the longtime residents of those supposedly conservative red states themselves. It’s the reverse of the cliché that many believed—that the refugees…


Who Are Those People Fleeing Blue States?

Commentary According to Clay Travis on Dec. 22’s Clay Travis-Buck Sexton Radio Show, the blue states are hemorrhaging people. From the transcript: “And they came out with the data on, the Census data for 2021, and—this is interesting—New York was the number one state to lose population. Around 320,000 New Yorkers bailed on the state….


The US Is Sorting Itself Into Red and Blue America

Commentary Even if you’re watching Fox News, the former broadcast media of choice for conservatives, the absence of reporting on Nov. 3, 2020 feels like an alternate universe. In my world of national security, it is a similar and parallel alt reality. The theme of beltway-centric defense journals is to fawn over the current administration…