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To be fair - anywhere with a high concentration of people tilts strongly to the left. That seems to be the overarching pattern: Sparsely populated counties ti
by RajT88 3y ago
To be fair - anywhere with a high concentration of people tilts strongly to the left. That seems to be the overarching pattern: Sparsely populated counties tilt to the right, highly populated counties tilt to the left. Analysts call it the "Rural-Urban divide".
You'll see this even in "Red" states. I would go so far as to say that what defines a "red" state is the number of voting districts which are sparsely populated.
Remember the graphic which showed in the 2020 election how the vast majority of the map swung for Trump? As the Democrats are fond of saying, "Land doesn't Vote..."
Ref: https://www.hillcountrynews.com/stories/analysis-in-texas-elections-size-matters,76657 https://www.hillcountrynews.com/stories/analysis-in-texas-el...
Ref: https://brilliantmaps.com/2020-county-election-map/ https://brilliantmaps.com/2020-county-election-map/
Of course... It's always more complicated than this. This is at best the broad strokes, all models are wrong but some are useful...