You are going to need someone who is going to be able to expand the map and win some of those other [Sun Belt] states." Since the Barack Obama years, Democrats have established a beachhead in several previously Republican-leaning Sun Belt states. Though Republicans retain at least a slight edge in many of the Sun Belt states, the growth in them is occurring primarily in places, and among groups, that lean Democratic. Large metros are similarly dominant in the growth of Sun Belt states from Colorado (Denver), Nevada (Las Vegas) and Arizona (Phoenix) to Georgia (Atlanta) and North Carolina (Charlotte and Raleigh). A more important difference is that in the Rust Belt states, those Whites without college degrees started at a much higher level.

Source: CNN May 11, 2021 04:07 UTC