Population Growth and Conservatism

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American Thinker:

Talk of population growth among conservatives often leads to two basic perspectives: (1) environmental concerns over excessive population growth are largely unfounded (i.e., the rejection of Paul Ehrlich's "Population Bomb" hypothesis); and (2) more population growth equals larger economic markets, which is a good thing. But population growth is not always supportive of true conservative principles, and the trends are heading in a problematic direction.

The urban-rural vote split needs to be front-and-center in conservative political strategizing. It is not working in our favor. After the 2010 mid-term elections, The Economist magazine noted that "there's scarcely a major city in America that isn't represented in congress by Democrats. Run down the top 30 incorporated places in America; the only ones represented by Republicans are Fort Worth, Texas and (as of January) Columbus, Ohio. Every other major city in Texas, and in fact every other major city in the South, is represented mainly by Democrats."

By 2012, the situation was even worse. For example, Romney won 55 of 67 counties in Pennsylvania and still lost the state in dramatic fashion, due in large part to the 466,000-vote margin Obama ran up in the urbanized Philadelphia counties alone. The only major cities that voted for Romney were Phoenix (which nearly went for Obama), Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, and Salt Lake City (Romney's "hometown"). Among the top 30 most populous cities, 27 voted for Obama.

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Talk of population growth among conservatives often leads to two basic perspectives: (1) environmental concerns over excessive population growth are largely unfounded (i.e., the rejection of Paul Ehrlich's "Population Bomb" hypothesis); and (2) more population growth equals larger economic markets, which is a good thing. But population growth is not always supportive of true conservative principles, and the trends are heading in a problematic direction.

The urban-rural vote split needs to be front-and-center in conservative political strategizing. It is not working in our favor. After the 2010 mid-term elections, The Economist magazine noted that "there's scarcely a major city in America that isn't represented in congress by Democrats. Run down the top 30 incorporated places in America; the only ones represented by Republicans are Fort Worth, Texas and (as of January) Columbus, Ohio. Every other major city in Texas, and in fact every other major city in the South, is represented mainly by Democrats."

By 2012, the situation was even worse. For example, Romney won 55 of 67 counties in Pennsylvania and still lost the state in dramatic fashion, due in large part to the 466,000-vote margin Obama ran up in the urbanized Philadelphia counties alone. The only major cities that voted for Romney were Phoenix (which nearly went for Obama), Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, and Salt Lake City (Romney's "hometown"). Among the top 30 most populous cities, 27 voted for Obama.

 

Hate to say this the free phone people / dead people control the city of any size