Texas Gains House Seats While New York Loses in Census Count

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43. Yup and here in PA

we have generally rotated (D) and (R) governors literally for the past 50+ years, as has New Jersey AND New York, and in fact, ALL of the Northeast/New England/MidAtlantic (which are supposedly the "traditional blue states" except for the top state official, not so much). Right now, VT, MA, and MD are have Republican governors.

It's an odd phenomena that seems to point to candidate selections and GOTV efforts at specific election times.

When you look at the (reported) registrations in FL, you have this (as of 3/2021) - https://dos.myflorida.com/elections/data-statistics/voter-registration-statistics/voter-registration-reportsxlsx/voter-registration-by-county-and-party/

TOTALS 5,185,744 (R) 5,290,465 (D) 247,108 (Minor) 3,832,070 (None)

So based on raw numbers, registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans in the state.

You see similar with NC (reported generated today for figures as of 4/24/21) - https://vt.ncsbe.gov/RegStat/Results/?date=04%2F24%2F2021

Totals 2,479,138 (D) 2,155,980 (R) 4,000 (GRN) 5,431 (CONST) 45,369 (LIB) 2,363,585 (UNAFF)

Again, registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans.

Here in PA, from the report I captured from the state site here - https://www.dos.pa.gov/VotingElections/OtherServicesEvents/VotingElectionStatistics/Pages/VotingElectionStatistics.aspx (where you can generate a spreadsheet) at as of 4/7/21, you had -

4,078,341 (D) 3,447,590 (R) 892,931 (NOAFF) 392,171 (ALL OTHERS)

And once again, registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans.

So it seems that a "likes with likes" mentality suggests that one group (Rs) respond to sticks and the other (Ds) respond to carrots and too many times that stick-whipping manages to get their voters out more consistently. The other issue is geographically where these votes are located, with Democrats tending to congregate in urban/suburban areas and Republicans in the rural areas.