> Seems to be a lot of correlation to voting patterns as well. No it doesn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2020_United_States_presidential_election_resul

> Seems to be a lot of correlation to voting patterns as well. No it doesn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2020_United_States_presidential_election_results_map_by_county.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2020_United_States_presid... It appears to be much more strongly correlated with poverty rate: https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2018/comm/acs-5yr-poverty-all-counties/_jcr_content/root/responsivegrid/embeddableimage1245.coreimg.jpeg/1543960755268/acs-5yr-poverty-rate-all-counties.jpeg https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2018/comm/acs-...