Those states really hate America and Americans.
They love taking all our american tax money.
You try living there and tell us how you feel
So all the shit states.
Most of the shit states.
Yea… I was absolutely shocked Missouri and Kansas weren’t on the list.
Especially Kansas which hasn’t voted for a dem president since 64 and over 90 years since a democrat senator.
I live the uneducated
Love them, even.
I can see my house from here.
I don’t see anything worth keeping, do you?
When you have a moment, get an adult to explain you why what you said is wrong. Once you understand it, ask yourself if it was what you meant to say.
What?
I said:
When you have a moment, get an adult to explain you why what you said is wrong. Once you understand it, ask yourself if it was what you meant to say.
The Retarded States.
The states that are red aren’t surprising. What’s surprising is some of the states that aren’t red. Particularly Kansas, Nebraska, and South Carolina.
Sixty percent is quite the bar.
That said, it’s important to remember that a “plus eleven” advantage means there’s still 4 sane voters for every 5 nut jobs, and even 40/60 means 2 for every 3. The inverse is true in deep blue states of course, making it somehow even crueler and more lacking in empathy that Trump collectively punishes blue states.
A persistent structural advantage is not the same as a population of actual humans being a monolith.
This is also why the “red/blue states” thing irritates me. People write off “red” states as useless. And sure, in one sense, maybe. But states can change, and they are, at worst, “currently red majority states”. Not “red states”.
Check the maps in this article.
Well said
60% is +20
I could have structured it more clearly, but yeah, +11 is 5:4, and the +20 of 60/40 is 3:2.
Columbia and Charleston must have done some heavy lifting in SC.
Used to. Historically Charleston was solid purple, often blue. After the Civil War there were more people of color living there than white, and the first African American rep came from SC-1 during Reconstruction.
But after Republican Nancy Mace won in 2020 against a Dem incumbent, the Republicans in Columbia redistricted SC-1 (Charleston) in a gerrymander to ensure that most of the voters of color went to Jim Clyburn’s nearby district, SC-6, making SC-1 dependably red, at least by the metrics of the time. Like, it wasn’t enough that she won, they were trying to make it bulletproof.
I never understood that until recently, but now it makes sense.
The thing to keep in mind about South Carolina is that it still has a corrupt, extractive economy: slavery may be gone, but there are still effectively two states – two classes – and a very large percentage of working class people, esp people of color, that regularly get shafted by everything having to do with the government. It creates all kinds of interesting political situations, some of which work for Republicans in power and others that scare the shit out of them.
Like earlier this summer when South Carolina noped out of further race-determined gerrymandering post-Callais while states like Tennessee gladly forged ahead: South Carolina wanted to, but they knew they were already on the fine line between gerrymander and dummymander with the last redistricting they pushed through. The Rs in Columbia know there is a huge percentage of the population that hate them. And because SC is an ex-slavery state, they are very, very good at corruption and knowing where to stop. Other states, not so much. So Columbia put brakes on it at the last second, promising to revisit redistricting next year.
TL;DR: South Carolina is a masterclass for the rest in twisting and thwarting the popular will and vote of its own citizens, and has been working on its game since its colony days.
While that’s informative and was genuinely interesting: is this really TIL material? There are plenty of communities where this fits perfectly, but I feel like there has been an increase of political posts disguised as TIL, just because oh I just read about this.
12 states to avoid traveling to
I don’t get Louisiana being red at all. I guess New Orleans is kind of a bubble but from a foreign perspective, it seems like such a beautiful fun city that I would have guessed would lean left
Cities are usually blue bubbles. You have to drill down to counties for a clear picture.
New Orleans was one of the largest cities in the US in the 1800s, which is partially why it’s such an established and famous city, but now it only has 360K people (after peaking at 630K in 1960). Louisiana as a whole has 4.6 million, so NOLA is less than 8% of the state
The city does. Travel up Louisiana and it’s just like the rest of the south, but with hot sauce.
And rock and roll food!
Most urban is blue - or at least much bluer than the surrounding rural. But even there, no urban is all blue and no rural is all red.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states#Purple_states
There are many ways to visualize on a smaller scale that “red/blue majority states”.
Which absolutely sucks because WV and WY are a couple of the best looking states(edit: nature wise, not people wise)
Visited my great-aunt’s Civil War era farm several times as a child. I cried every time I was dragged away. I would kill to unlock videos from my childhood as a West Virginia movie.
Peter Santenollo’s videos about Appalachia, especially WV, have left me quietly weeping.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEyPgwIPkHo5If6xyrkr-s2I6yz23o0av
For those that grew up without, this man performs real investigative journalism all by himself. It’s rather shocking to see after all this time. You get inside places in America you didn’t know existed. He pulls no punches, but neither does he fuck with people for drama, and he’ll never lead the interviewee for a certain answer. Just the facts ma’am.
They’re defending coal in a way but think about economic opportunity for green energy, that would replace all the work lost. Unfortunately, that is more politics.
Yet another reason I cry for them. Imagine West Virginia pivoting to green energy and leading the US. But they won’t, because dad, papaw, great-grandad and his dad were miners and made enough to feed a family.
Can we just give them their own backwards country called dumbfuckastan?
Nobody accused the best nor brightest of doing it, though a shocking number of people in the better and brighter states will vote for the tangerine maroon
Nice source. Very data.
YEAH, BASED ON WHAT? 2024?
People always think Texas is super red, but we’re really something like 54% of voters in presidential elections. The districts are so fucking gerrymandered it keeps everything outside of the bigger cities looking red.
Florida as well. I’m tired of getting beat up on social media when the news out of Tennessee is so much fucking worse. It’s like people don’t actually read the news and get all their opinions from social media. What a poisonous way to learn about the world.
You can say this about nearly every red state.
Yep. You have to drill down to the county level so see truly wild disparities. Fuck me, even Mississippi has blue counties.
Stay strong, Montana.
We’re working on prop I-194 this election, which would ban corporate money in politics in a unique way (you should read about it and encourage your state to adopt a similar proposal). Based on everything I’ve seen around here I expect it to pass. That won’t stop the Supreme Court from overturning the will of the voters but at least it will piss a lot of people off when that happens.
I looked it up. Oh god yes. I’d vote for that in a heartbeat.
Thank you for commenting, because not being anywhere near there this is the first I’ve personally heard about Montana’s good efforts in this direction, and national media doesn’t really talk about these state efforts much.
West Virginia used to be a union stronghold. They’d be ashamed of what that state has become.
texas and ohio wasn’t on the list? wao
TX will be bluer than OH in our lifetime. Never thought I’d see the day lol.
Depends on how much time it gets to disenfranchise blue voters
Probably 59%
