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I'm sorry, I really don't see how that map is particularly contradictory to my point. Swap "rural" for "exurban" or merely "less urban," if you wish, and take a

I'm sorry, I really don't see how that map is particularly contradictory to my point. Swap "rural" for "exurban" or merely "less urban," if you wish, and take a look at the map you linked. Most of the time, The red dots surround the clusters of blue dots, and never vice versa. The clusters of blue dots are large cities, or "highly urban" areas, and the clusters of red dots surrounding them are outlying "less urban" areas.

littlestymaar 6y ago
> Location within each state are approximate Don't take the map literally, the key ideas are in the Twitter thread. The main point of his thread, is that maps aren't good at saying where voters are and are fundamentally biased (“You can be a Biden voter in a Trump household in a Biden precinct in a Trump county in a Biden district in a Trump state in a Biden country. Then what color is your land? Dirt-colored, I guess! Not only does land not vote, it doesn’t even have a preference.”). He made his map as a counterpoint to nationwide maps, but he could have made the same map at the state, or even the district level: there are trumps voter in the middle of San Francisco and Bidden voters in the middle of nowhere in rural California. In fact, there are more Trump voters in LA alone than in 80% of the red areas in nationwide maps.