toobfreak
Tungsten/Glass Member
Have you heard that lie as often as I have? What is the real truth here? Unlike the many Tramp-bashers here who spew constant unsubstantiated rhetoric, I will explore the facts of the matter as I always do. So what is the truth of the Blue and Red States?
The 50 US States Ranked By Population
I used another chart I had on file that showed the outcome of the states in 2016 ranked by four shades of blue and red each representing 5-10-15-+ percent leaning for the given candidate. By putting these together, I was able to create a chart that showed the order of states BY ORDER OF POPULATION, and whether they were blue or red, and to what degree.
Since the question here is whether anyone lives in Red states, we are NOT concerned with the Size of the states nor the number of Electoral voters. Here is the result:
What can we conclude from this?
- Since nearly all states periodically change from Blue to Red to Blue again, any absolute claims about a state based on "color" must therefore be total BULL. Same holds true for "Trump Supporters" since a good many of them also voted for Obama! That alone negates 95% of all Trump or Trump Supporter bashing threads.
- There is no "Blue" or "Red" states. Some states are indeed HARD Blue or Red, but many more states are purple that simply lean blue or red, and "Swing States" are those states which are close enough to the absolute middle that they could conceivably be "swung" to the other side at any given time.
The 50 US States Ranked By Population
I used another chart I had on file that showed the outcome of the states in 2016 ranked by four shades of blue and red each representing 5-10-15-+ percent leaning for the given candidate. By putting these together, I was able to create a chart that showed the order of states BY ORDER OF POPULATION, and whether they were blue or red, and to what degree.
Since the question here is whether anyone lives in Red states, we are NOT concerned with the Size of the states nor the number of Electoral voters. Here is the result:
What can we conclude from this?
- OF THE TEN MOST POPULOUS STATES: only THREE are Blue, the other SEVEN are Red.
- OF THE TEN LEAST POPULOUS STATES: five are Blue, five are Red, and Maine is 75% Blue and 25% Red. So there is NO TRUTH in the claim that no one lives in Red states, and Trump bashers are lying sacks of shit! As usual, clueless or lying about the actual facts.
- 3 of the top 6 most populous states HEAVILY favored Hillary, while those red states which heavily favored Trump tended to be smaller. But then, those three Blue states are totally dominated by cities making up less than 1% of their areas (San Fran, LA, Chicago, and NYC). Therefore, democratic voters are centralized while Trump voters are diversified.
- In contrast, Trump's largest hard core (+15%) state ranked #16 (Tennessee).
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