GOP Faces Redistricting Challenges in Shifting Suburbs

“The dynamic caused by a Democratic surge in the suburbs is not at work just in Georgia. In staunchly Republican Kansas, Democrats picked up a seat in 2018. Population growth in the affluent and higher educated suburbs of Kansas City could result in Republicans being forced to draw a district that favors Democrats,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Census and electoral data show similar patterns in Denver and Des Moines, Iowa, as well as in Columbus, Ohio, and North Carolina’s Research Triangle metro. In all those communities, the counties have seen double-digit population growth and have college education rates high above the national average, which voting data shows tends to skew an area more Democratic.”