If I understand you, you ignored Trump supporters in Pennsylvania,
Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, etc. All of
those states have substantial rural parts. I think that possibly doing
the same exercise with counties would be interesting as a measurement of
the degree politics is a function of location.
The line between red and blue is going to be very complicated, going
through the middle of many Thanksgiving dinner tables.
—Barry
On 6 Nov 2020, at 18:33, Prof David West wrote:
A comment was made at vFRIAM that support of trump/biden was
"explained in large part as rural versus urban."
I just did a quick, and therefore not 100% accurate, count of the
population of states supporting trump: more or less 75 million. If
that was the sole source of his support, then 90% of the population of
those states — not just voters — would have to vote trump to
account for his 68 million votes.
Yes, flyover country is sparsely populated (in comparison) and yes,
they supported trump, but, just like biden, most of his support had to
come from urban areas.
davew
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