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Significance
Control of state legislatures is vital to the process of electoral redistricting, triggered by the 2020 census, which will last for the next ten years. Several states also voted on questions of drug policy and the minimum wage; such changes often percolate to the national level.
Impacts
Democrats will find it difficult to unify their message given divisions between progressives and centrists.
State-level politics will influence national politics, such as California de facto setting US emissions policy.
Republican state governments will litigate Democratic federal measures, such as reintroducing environmental regulations.
Democrats will try to deepen their engagement with state organisations, but positive results will take time.
Keywords:
United States,
NA,
politics,
election,
government,
party,
narcotics,
policy,
population,
reform,
wages
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