I think... (and this is not based solely on 2016, more on 2024/2028)
Arizona
Texas
Georgia
Alaska
South Carolina
Utah
Indiana
Missouri
Kentucky
Tennessee
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Nebraska
South Dakota
Montana
West Virginia
Alabama
Idaho
Wyoming
North Dakota
I feel strongly that North Dakota will be one of the three most Republican states over the next couple of decades, unless something changes like the Republican party would change radically its platform, outreach, strategy, kind of candidates and such. I also feel that Utah will transform radically from what it is today in the matter of less than a generation. It's in the very middle of the latino belt, and the strong increase of its latino population isn't that far behind its cousins Nevada, Texas and California. In fact, its latino increase in percentage in the last decade was almost exactly the same as those of Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. Didn't get much attention in the media though.
In fact, Utah's percentage increased even more than neighbouring Colorado (4% against Colorado's 3.7%).
While we're talking about the latin boom, these were the percentages each of the 50 states + D.C. increased its latin population (as a percentage of the overall population) between
1990 & 2010 [with current Republican or GOP-leaning states with above average growth in bold]:
1. Nevada: +16.1% (which fully explains why it's no longer a Republican state)
2. Texas: +12.1%3. California: +11.8%
4. Arizona: +10.8%
5. Florida: +10.3%
6. Utah: +8.1%7. New Jersey: +8.1%
8. New Mexico: +8.1%
9. Illinois: +7.9%
10. Rhode Island: +7.8%
11. Colorado: +7.8%
12. Oregon: +7.7%
National average: +7.3%13. North Carolina: +7.2%
14. Georgia: +7.1%
15. Nebraska: +6.9%
16. Connecticut: +6.9%
17. Washington: +6.8%
18. Kansas: +6.7%
19. Oklahoma: +6.2%
20. Idaho: +5.9%
21. Delaware: +5.8%
22. Arkansas: +5.6%
23. Maryland: +5.6%
24. Virginia: +5.3%
25. New York: +5.3%
26. Massachusetts: +4.8%
27. South Carolina: +4.2%
28. Indiana: +4.2%
29. Wisconsin: +4%
30. Tennessee: +3.9%
31. Iowa: +3.8%
32. Pennsylvania: +3.7%
33. Washington D.C.: +3.7%
34. Minnesota: +3.5%
35. Alabama: +3.3%
36. Wyoming: +3.2%
37. Kentucky: +2.5%
38. Missouri: +2.3%
39. Alaska: +2.3%
40. Michigan: +2.2%
41. Mississippi: +2.1%
42. Louisiana: +2%
43. South Dakota: +1.9%
44. New Hampshire: +1.8%
45. Ohio: +1.8%
46. Hawaii: +1.6% (surprisingly small increase for such a sunny paradise)
47. Montana: +1.4%
48. North Dakota: +1.3%
49. Vermont: +0.8%
50. West Virginia: +0.7%
51. Maine: +0.7%
Clearly this goes to show that latinos don't particularily like the thought of living in the cold north.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_Hispanic_and_Latino_population#Hispanic.2FLatino_.25_of_Population_.281910-2010.29_by_U.S._State
