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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is just a regional trend.  People "fleeing" Fairfax for Loudoun and to a lesser extent Prince William.  People "fleeing" PG for Charles.  Many decades ago, people were "fleeing" DC for Fairfax, Montgomery, and PG.  People just move to where they can get more value, which has typically been farther away from the original job centers.  Then new satellite job centers are created (Tysons, Reston, Fairfax, Bethesda, Rockville, Gaithersburg).  Now you have newer satellite job centers with data centers in Loudoun and biotech in Frederick.  Furthermore, the increase in remote work has facilitated the move out.  Note people are still sticking around regionally.  [/quote]

Yeah but few regions go out of their way to promote undocumented immigrants’ migration like Moco (for largely national democratic hopes of electoral dominance). The story of Casa de Maryland is a powerful one - even though its HQ is in Prince George’s.  It has become a kingmaker in Maryland - and what you see in Moco is a switch- Hispanics (Moco) for whites/AAs (Frederick/PG).  The county’s structural problem is the voters they are attracting make significantly less than the ones who are leaving.  The other question - are the voters in the bubbles like Chevy Chase and Bethesda willing to pay taxes to provide an expensive and subpar education largely to the poor of Central America?  [/quote]

I don't disagree.  However, Moco is not the only county experiencing this issue.  Fairfax and Montgomery are more alike than different.  Fairfax's Hispanic population is ~16.6% and Montgomery's is ~20.1%.  The absolute numbers are a bit closer because Fairfax has a larger population overall.  So Moco is not attracting a highly disproportionate number of Hispanic voters, they seem to be more or less distributed across the inner ring of DC suburbs.  PG's Hispanic population is ~20.4%, but a lower absolute number because PG is smaller than Fairfax and Montgomery.
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/princegeorgescountymaryland,montgomerycountymaryland,fairfaxcountyvirginia/PST045222

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