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  1. I wouldn’t be surprised if in the next few years NY becomes more red. The Dems in NY are horrible, and weak. Such as not catching Santos’ fraud before he was elected, that should have been an easy exposé for the Dems. Areas like Long Island, Staten Island and other parts of NYC are becoming increasingly conservative. 

  2. honestly i figured we (CA) would’ve been a lot closer to 0.0

    a 12% margin is a bit surprising to me considering how the rural areas are a lot whiter and usually red compared to the coastlines (we don’t talk about huntington beach)

    i would be interested in seeing if his approval in our rural areas got worse after demanding the water reserves get released months before they were actually needed

  3. It’s wild comparing this to state Human Development Index rankings. Every state on this map where Trump lost the white vote is in the top half by HDI and the only states outside the top 15 are Rhode Island (16) and Maine (22). It also includes the entire top four and eight of the top ten.

    I’m certainly preaching to choir here on Reddit, but perhaps folks in red states may want to do some soul searching and figure out why life is so much better in the blue states….

  4. As a white Mississippian who has voted for a democrat in every election since I was 18 (36 now), this is both disheartening and unsurprising.

  5. It’s always fun to see that the states that need the most help are the ones that always vote to get destroyed the most

  6. Just about every “how good is it to live here” dataviz is a damn close match to “how blue is it there”.

  7. I just want to point out – that this data is often obfuscated and gives people a talk track of “oh racism or sexism is why they voted Trump”

    I think the Democratic Party should try to actually evaluate why a major demographic is drawn towards Trump. Bernie sanders has a great take on this, but I personally recall the DNC platform having every race and gender except white men. And as a white man, it doesn’t exactly convince me to join a party when their messaging to me is “if you don’t join, you’re racist, you’re so privileged you don’t deserve to be in the conversation”.

    Identity politics while important, is also avoiding problems most Americans face. Housing, medical, job market etc. <— I’m really hoping the democrats go back to basics and try to win over middle America instead of demonizing white men.

  8. I always wonder wouldn’t FPTP plus Electoral College make people not want to vote. Because even if you vote different, all state’s electors would all vote the winner.

  9. lateformyfuneral on

    Fun Fact: The Democratic Party has never won a majority of White voters nationwide since the Civil Rights Act

  10. Ok-Jackfruit-6873 on

    I’m guessing someone showed him this chart right before he decided he needed to send the national guard to DC

  11. I’ve said in other comments before, the above is why Trump won the election. It’s not because Hispanics shifted red. Or black men shifted red. It’s because white people (still the largest voting block in the US) overwhelmingly refused to vote for Kamala. Now I think it’s due to racism and sexism. But that could be debated.

  12. CrowExcellent2365 on

    MA and VT hate his guts with a fiery passion. Can’t even get a quarter of his base here.

  13. This graph really shows how few people live in downstate Illinois. Republicans there love to show how almost the entire state is dark red outside of Chicago. It’s only white people down there and Chicagoland still swings the number to almost even.

  14. Great graphics and clarity. Can you do another two to separate these into white women and white men please? Thank you.

  15. Gold-Captain-5956 on

    Tell me Ohio is being overrun by people moving in from neighboring states without actually telling me….

  16. I dont know how to read this.

    A little help plz

    what does the farthest right and farthest left mean on the legend.

    Trumps margin of victory = how many white people voted away from his potential victory in the state?

  17. Vermont is the only sane state left in the union apparently.

    Also, I will always point out that Texas wasn’t actually the most red state even in 2024, not even close.