[FRIAM] vote

[Barry MacKichan]

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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