What if … Black Farm Possession Returns? The influence on the elections is taken under consideration

What if … owning a black farm could instantly give six to eight Senators to Democratic candidates.

In the early 1900s, black ownership of farmland began to grow, and in 1920, black ownership of farmland, particularly in the Midwest, became a regular lifestyle for many who fled the old south and wanted to create wealth for their new families . In 2020 we saw the COVID-19 outbreak and suddenly everyone is working from home with Zoom or Microsoft teams.

What if … rural Midwestern communities became toxic to young adults looking to build careers as they flocked to the cities. However, with COVID-19, more and more workers are doing this from home every day. What if rural communities with high quality broadband became fantastic immigration destinations for a more democratic electoral community, how would that affect states and elections?

A few months ago I was in the city I grew up in, a small town of 800 people in Kansas. The community had grown, but not by much. It now offered a few things that were new. A grocery store entirely run by the local government (gasp! Socialism!) And gigabit internet everywhere. Along with their county, they asked residents from everywhere: come here! Why not? Given the incredibly cheap property taxes, gigabit internet, publicly owned grocery stores, and farmland homes that people with USDA programs can finance for near zero and low interest rates, why shouldn’t people consider moving? This is the same situation throughout the Midwest that is everywhere. Communities that have long been left to the dead are now experiencing a resurgence, and families are realizing that to be successful, they don’t have to live where they work.

If this were a bigger trend what could happen?

Black farm ownership reached its peak in 1920. At the time, the Ku Klux Klan and other groups carried out “quick and severe backlash” to terrorize independent black farmers, she added. These vigilante efforts came with one Set of US Government Directives– detailed in this great year 2019 Atlantic items by Vann R. Newkirk II – effectively expropriating black-owned farmland and placing it in the hands of white people. During the 20th century the price of arable land increased by a factor of 52– still makes it a vehicle for Wealth accumulation that were African American systematically denied access to. The steady rise in land values, which will continue into the 21st century, makes it possible prohibited expensive for new farmers to break into agriculture, which means the white dominance of farmland keeps plenty of momentum.

You see, one of the remaining problems is that farmland is in a place where it is in the hands almost entirely of white, conservative populations. The USDA has not always been honest about the problem that agriculture diversity is facing right now. However, population shifts can change that. So forget to buy up the farmland. “What if …” a democratic population in rural districts could pass regulatory rules that provide for better, higher quality agriculture or land use? Mixed-use areas and more expansion of the residence? Could you just as importantly see the black and brown community using the USDA and other agencies used in the past for racist measures to change the results? Surely it is true.

What if you could bring 100,000 new voters to these states: North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming, Montana. That assumes you could get 600,000 voters to take out a loan and move, which would be almost free for the government, against the Average Government Rating (RPI) I’ll put together and say: Homes for ~ $ 90,000 that these meet requirements. Let’s say you get two voters per household – sometimes you get more, but not everyone has a full house to themselves. Okay, so 300,000 home purchases. $ 27 billion. Right, a large number. Bottom line: 12 new Democratic Senators. Twelve governors. It ignites the fire no more than the 2020 election cost of $ 14 billion, and you would change the landscape permanently.

In “what if” country, environmentalists would be encouraged to do just that, to adopt state legislation in red states with small populations and to advocate laws against the environment. Black property would return – right now, 77% of white families own their homes compared to 43% of black families, which limits the wealth of the generations.

Why what if it won’t happen.

This is easy to see how this can happen. The opportunities for a progressive left. Still, there are many reasons why it won’t occur. Right now it will be difficult to ask left-wing voters to move to monochromatic white states. They’ll be moving into a hostile environment, and if several don’t come along on the first move, they’ll take the risk.

The other reason this doesn’t happen is frankly institutional racism. BIPOC communities could quickly and easily form full communities in the Midwest – but they are not informed on how to do it. For example, the Biden government has offered people in trouble new ways to buy and apply for rural loans. Still, the stigma about these communities persists, and so the idea of ​​moving to the Midwest or areas of the South is unlikely.

What if…

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