I'll predict these counties are largely GOP. This will open up precedent for urban areas to secede from their states and declare themselves states. The GOP ma

I'll predict these counties are largely GOP. This will open up precedent for urban areas to secede from their states and declare themselves states. The GOP maintains power via the senate's disproportionate empowering of rural states. Before anyone says that the senate is intended to represent land, just realize that almost all of this "representation of land" is done via white senators. If democratic urban areas declared themselves states, gaining senators to represent themselves (and depriving the rural areas of the economic vitality of the cities, then the GOP would be finished.