This is the map in 2060. What happened?

[Figueira]

[morgieb]

Ummm....I've got nothing. So much of that feels really contradictory.

[bagelman]

My eyes hurt

[One Term Floridian]

A realignment with the WWC clearly must have begun. The inverse, too, with college-educated voters must have began  It would have been helpful to see the margins to see how far this has progressed in the individual states. The Democrat might have also seen a home region bump in Appalachia and the Republican might have had a similar bump in one of the states that’s currently strongly D. I suspect there might have been some woes with green energy because the Democrat is doing well with oil, gas and coal states aside from Texas, Louisiana and Alaska. It’s possible those three are close with a Democrat running a pro fossil fuel campaign.

[Skill and Chance]

Something to do with a massive increase in mining to support some climate mitigation program to save Florida and coastal cities?  I assume techies in Seattle and Boston have already built their own seawalls?

[TheReckoning]

      Assuming a politically neutral environment (as in, NPV has a 0% margin), this would mean 29 out of 51 states + DC kept the same partisan lean relative to 2020. In constrast, in 2020, 30 out of 51 states + DC kept the same partisan lean relative to 1980, the election with the same gap year-wise as this future map between 2020, so this map, at least by that metric, wouldn’t mean anymore radical change than the change between 1980 and 2020.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

What would it take for Montana to become a Dem state in the future exactly?

[TheReckoning]

What would it take for Montana to become a Dem state in the future exactly?

Perpetual farm crises?

[Zedonathin2020]

What would it take for Montana to become a Dem state in the future exactly?

Forget that, what about Wyoming?

[Skill and Chance]

What would it take for Montana to become a Dem state in the future exactly?

Perpetual farm crises?

Well, the most plausible way for it to happen is that it becomes a prime destination for WFH techies, but that doesn't really work with these coalitions.  To get this map to work, the best I can come up with is mining becoming a client industry of a future green new deal.