{"id":18867,"date":"2011-03-17T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T17:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18867"},"modified":"2011-03-17T09:52:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T15:52:08","slug":"census-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18867","title":{"rendered":"Census Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The short, perhaps simplistic response to the <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2011\/03\/17\/census-population-redistricting\/\">US Census numbers for Minnesota<\/a>, which will be driving the upcoming redistricting efforts?\u00a0 The conservative, GOP-dominated parts of this state are succeeding. The DFL-dominated ones are floundering.<\/p>\n<p>Voters &#8211; the ones that can &#8211; are voting with their feet.<\/p>\n<p>The longer, more detailed analysis of the same question?<\/p>\n<p>About the same.<\/p>\n<p>Not just in Minnesota.\u00a0 Southern, Republican sun-belt states are booming; the Democrat rust-belt is atrophying.<\/p>\n<p>Rigorously Republican North Dakota?\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/census\/2011-03-16-north-dakota-census_N.htm\">Kapow<\/a>.\u00a0 And now, it&#8217;s not all in the oil.<\/p>\n<p>The lesson is clear.\u00a0 &#8220;Progressivism&#8221; equals decay, rot, death.\u00a0 Conservatism equals vigor, growth, life itself.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The short, perhaps simplistic response to the US Census numbers for Minnesota, which will be driving the upcoming redistricting efforts?\u00a0 The conservative, GOP-dominated parts of this state are succeeding. The DFL-dominated ones are floundering. Voters &#8211; the ones that can &#8211; are voting with their feet. The longer, more detailed analysis of the same question? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midwest","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18867"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18871,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18867\/revisions\/18871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}