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Because the populations of their cities and suburbs are red (remember, we're talking at the margins here) to the point that required items on the official blue

Because the populations of their cities and suburbs are red (remember, we're talking at the margins here) to the point that required items on the official blue platform that blue candidates must espouse in order to get blue funding are deal breakers to them (at the margins). HN always has a wide blind spot for how much the average person's beliefs are mixed and matched from the left and right. Ask the office janitor or delivery truck driver what he/she thinks about abortion and LGBTQ rights and then ask them what they think about min-wage and healthcare. Odds are you'll get points from both parties represented. Red states are reliably red because those people reliably care about things from the red platform more than they care about things from the blue platform and blue states are blue for the same reason.

hn_throwaway_99 5y ago
> Because the populations of their cities and suburbs are red (remember, we're talking at the margins here) That's just demonstrably false. Take a look at this election results map of Texas: https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/texas/ https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/texas/ . Or this one of Tennessee: https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/tennessee/ https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/tennessee/ . Or this one of Arkansas: https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/arkansas/ https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/arkansas/ . In every case the largest cities voted for Biden. Texas is particularly stark because all of the top 4 cities, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Austin went for Biden.