There is a war for people, and some states are losing that war. The states that are winning are texas, florida, colorado, montana, oregan north carolina. They all gained population and therefore congressional seats over the last decade. While seven states, including new york and california, lost seats. That effects their political representation in washington. It affects federal funding. And so it has potentially large implications if some of these trins continue into the decade ahead.
The flood of people out of cities is unlike anything since the suburbanisation of the 1950s; we examine the inevitable economic and political consequences. After years of reporting our correspondent concludes that the mutual disdain of a country’s northern and southern halves is a curious human universal. And a sojourn to fact-check Julius Caesar’s accounts of his triumphs in France.
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