"The center of political gravity will shift."

David Brooks is making predictions again:

In the liberal era, the urban Northeast dominated the landscape. In the conservative era, it was in the South and in bedroom communities like those in Southern California. In the coming era, the center of gravity will move to the West and the Midwestern plains, and to the pragmatic, untethered office park suburbs sprouting up there.

(TimesSelect link.)

Is something going to happen out here in the Midwest? I sure hope so.