Working-class residents who formed its base were priced out of the city's housing market, more affluent voters moved into the city as other changes occurred.
Monday's speech showed he understands why many voters don't trust Labour on the economy, and has moved accordingly.
But as more Republican voters have moved in, that balance has been shifting.
Since most of the population lived in the south, voters moved the county seat to the new Doniphan, where a wooden courthouse was built.
But voters may also be moving in mysterious ways.
For years, as voters moved to the cities, farmers maintained a disproportionate share of the vote in Japanese elections.
Indeed, as these voters died off or moved away the electorate fell still further, and only 461 men were registered to vote by 1865.
He is doing it a time when, nationwide, voters are moving away from party loyalty.
Because if there was, swing voters would usually move to the right and the Likud candidate would benefit.
There's little evidence that voters suddenly moved to the right in 1994.