What are some of the indicators you look out for when seeing if there is a major demographic shift coming in the places you're looking at?
How old people are.
How many college educated people there are.
How many children being born.
How high the cost of living is in a state.
Immigration flows from different countries.
America has a clear migration pattern anyway.
Millions of people fled the South after the Civil War because the slave society in the South ended and there were few opportunities. They went North and West.
Those same people ended up having families and shit, and they were more educated than their parents and was able to take advantages of opportunities in the West and the North.
But the issue is, economics and making money is a zero sum game.
The more industrialized and educated a society gets, the less opportunities there is to make a decent living being an average person.
So I knew everyone that went North and West will eventually have to come back South if they were rational. And the first people to leave is always Black people, since we are the ones that can't afford shit when cost of living goes up even 1 percent.
NYC, Cali and Chicago and shit was expensive in the 90s. It's just that the opportunities for a good education and a decent quality of life was worth it.
Just focus a state and research everything about that state, it's history, it's policies and etc. The. You'll have a good idea regarding it's demographics and how it works. Where do Black people live, where White people live, where the Latinos live, where the Asians live? Is the state heavily segregated and etc.
Every state is its own country, you gotta view it like that.