Can you imagine the gentrification and housing crisis you'd cause by suddenly raising the population of a state by 20-50% (necessary to guarantee the state turns blue)? You may work from home, but you still need housing, Internet, water, heat, infrastructure to support it all, the supply networks necessary to deliver more goods to the remote area...
The necessary development may catch up over a generation, the way it did in, say, Colorado, but in the meantime you'll have a bunch of liberals encroaching on the locals' space while having a negligible effect on the elections.
I'm sure the locals aren't going to want to shoot the incoming yuppies that raise their housing costs and install bicycle lanes and shop online.
2 of these states have a lot of unused housing as people have moved away from certain parts of the state due to declining oil revenues, and the other 2 have huge tourism destinations that are full of unused housing right now because it isn't ski season alongside the virus being a thing.
Gentrification wouldn't really be as much of a problem as it would be if a similar thing happened in some other areas.
Can you imagine the gentrification and housing crisis you'd cause by suddenly raising the population of a state by 20-50% (necessary to guarantee the state turns blue)? You may work from home, but you still need housing, Internet, water, heat, infrastructure to support it all, the supply networks necessary to deliver more goods to the remote area...
The necessary development may catch up over a generation, the way it did in, say, Colorado, but in the meantime you'll have a bunch of liberals encroaching on the locals' space while having a negligible effect on the elections.
I'm sure the locals aren't going to want to shoot the incoming yuppies that raise their housing costs and install bicycle lanes and shop online.
If a bunch of tech employed liberals moved into my town, I would unironically join the town posse to run them out.
2 of these states have a lot of unused housing as people have moved away from certain parts of the state due to declining oil revenues, and the other 2 have huge tourism destinations that are full of unused housing right now because it isn't ski season alongside the virus being a thing.
Gentrification wouldn't really be as much of a problem as it would be if a similar thing happened in some other areas.