Can Oklahoma be a swing state one day?

[Suburbia]

?

[iceman]

probably, in like 50 years from now?

[Agonized-Statism]

Isn't Oklahoma projected to be a majority minority state in a few decades?

[Tartarus Sauce]

One day? Probably. Anytime soon? No.

Isn't Oklahoma projected to be a majority minority state in a few decades?

A good chunk of that comes from self-identified Native Americans who have largely assimilated into the background white culture, and thus tend to skew Republican.

[Libertas Vel Mors]

No.

Even if Oklahoma became majority minority, it would still be so much whiter than the nation that it would lean far to the right of the country as a whole. It's not really debatable.

[President Biden Democrat]

You never know what can happen in the future, especially in over 40 to 50 years from now. But, it seems unlikely that it will be a swing state any time soon in the future. It will take a lot (minority growth) for this to happen, but it definitely could.

[clever but short]

I mean a lot of things to happen, and with current coalitions I think it would be one of the more plausible of the most non-Atlas red states to maybe become slightly less safe, if Tulsa and OKC growth were to accelerate and white population percentage shrinks. However. That would still take a very long time, even with the most accelerated trends, long enough that the current coalitions will probably no longer exist. Short answer: probably not, during this party system.

One day? Probably. Anytime soon? No.

Isn't Oklahoma projected to be a majority minority state in a few decades?

A good chunk of that comes from self-identified Native Americans who have largely assimilated into the background white culture, and thus tend to skew Republican.

But I would think another good chunk would come from Hispanic and Asian-American populations in OKC and Tulsa, no?

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

The only person that is just as polarizing as Trump is Inhofe, once he retires, OK will become more winnable for Ds.

I can see another JC Watts in OK Senate

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

It could one day (like any other state), but not within a political generation (so not for the next 16 years).