What’s driving the change in Arizona?

[Damocles]

I can only speak for myself. I moved down here because my employer paid me to. I wonder how many others came from the Pacific Northwest, California, the Northeast, and other heavily D-leaning places for similar reasons?

It’s also incredibly hot and dry out here unless you go to Sedona or Flagstaff or some other place. There just aren’t many places to have tons of rural communities. Outside of Phoenix and Tucson, on whatever suitable land is usable, it’s mostly just copper mines, cotton fields, citrus groves, and cattle ranches.

Those aren’t exactly conducive to a large, settled, permanent population. So you have a state where the overwhelming majority of its population live in just two metropolitan areas. Washington state is like that, and so are California and Nevada. It just took Arizona more time to follow this political development.