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Originally Posted by 3rd&Brown
I will say this. Jeff Bezos is a hard core liberal who spent a significant amount of time in his life in New Jersey and owns the Washington Post. He's not putting HQ2 in a deep red state, the only exceptions potentially being Atlanta or Austin.
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Overall I agree about the exhausting and largely nonsensical nature of the media coverage. However, on this point, keep in mind, there is largely no such thing as red states and blue states. Even the bluest of blue states is largely red outside of the big metros and even the reddest of red states, largely have blue cities.
Amazon in announcing their finalists they wiped out all bids that weren't inside a major metropolitan area. No matter which of the 20 bids they pick, they'll be somewhere blue. I don't know if a place like Austin which is very blue but is located in a red state with appealing tax incentives is necessarily a negative.
Also as Texas gets younger and more hispanic it's also trending more democratic. Adding 50,000 jobs held by largely liberal people, many of whom would likely be transplanting to Texas, may even start to speed up that process.
The only way I think being in a red state actively hampers a bid, would likely be if the state has passed some sort of restrictive social laws that affects minorities such as gays or transgenders, such as bills passed in Indiana and North Carolina in recent years. Even then, you'd have to think states would remove such laws if it meant landing Amazon, so who knows, perhaps Bezos would see as a positive that he's positively affecting the lives of people in minority communities.
Bottom line, I don't really think personal politics from Bezos will factor in as much as you think it will, and even if does, I don't think it necessarily makes as much of a difference as you imply as you could look at it a number of different ways.
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