By 2028, will the 13 original states going to be Safe Ds?

[RINO Tom]

1) I feel, as always, obligated to say that some of you younger posters who are convinced that the politics you came of age during are "here to stay" are just plain naive.  I don't think frickin' Donald Rumsfeld will come riding in to restore a neo-conservative GOP alongside Zel Miller's eventual corpse winning the Democratic nomination, but we simply WILL NOT see our current trends last in a vacuum for decades and decades.  It just won't happen.

2) If we did see our current trends continue unchanged even through, 2028, you still would not see North Carolina, South Carolina OR Georgia be "Safe D."  You likely wouldn't see New Hampshire or Pennsylvania be "Safe D," either, and since these trends necessitate Republican inroads alongside Democratic inroads, you would likely see a state like Rhode Island shift out of "Safe D" territory.

[RINO Tom]

There are trends thought that are "here to stay" for the foreseeable future like Maryland, New York and Illinois.

That is your guess or your opinion, dude.  Nobody here knows what will happen even ten years from now.