So this is just a thought I had occur to me while looking at statistical data of “liberal” tech centers (Silicon Valley, Silicon Hills, Silicon Forest, Silicon Peach, etc.). LITERALLY NOTHING MAKES SENSE. Hear me out here. When. You actually look at demographic and statistical data for urban centers, NOTHING makes sense.
I’m going to use Austin for an Example since I’ve found the most info on It specifically. Now, if demographic surveys are to be believed (which they probably aren’t) roughly 150K people have moved to Austin from California over the last decade, which is the reason it’s gotten “bluer”.
The problem lies in the fact that roughly 85% of these people also admit they’re either registered republicans or conservative leaning independents. So where are their votes? Over the last decade the GOP vote in Travis county has only increased by 30K, so where are all of these GOP votes going?
Likewise the demographic makeup doesn’t match the voting patterns either. Travis county has almost 1.3 Millino people. The reason most people assume it’s blue is because of all the tech jobs, but that can’t be right either. They only employ a small portion of that population. For example, the facebook regional headquarters in Austin only has 200 employees. Most of the tech companies have 10K or fewer employees, not all of which are immediately liberal mind you.
The overwhelming majority of people in Travis country are blue collar workers. Construction in particular is a VERY big industry in Travis county. Again it’s not a guaranteed thing, but blue collar workers tend to skew massively towards the conservative end of the spectrum by like 70-80%. So where are their votes going?
Another reason people say that places like Austin, LA, Portland, Seattle, etc. are liberal is because of the influx of “starving artist” types who are typically liberal hipsters. Which IS true to an extent, but these people are an overwhelming minority in most cases. (Starbucks can only hire so many Baristas after all).
The point I’m trying to make here is that the numbers don’t add up. Where are all of these votes going? With the revelations in the last election of votes being not just switched, but outright deleted and ballots being shredded before being counted, I think that sheds a bit of light on this.
I used to consider Austin, Portland, Seattle, etc. some of the few truly lost areas of the country because of their demographics, but this revelation has me thinking.
Is there actually a legitimately blue area in the US?
The circumstantial evidence is suggesting that even in the most “liberal” of areas, they’re cheating to reduce GOP votes in every way they can to maintain control. Think about it? Why wouldn’t all of these people who are moving to escape liberal rule and have a confessed GOP leaning not vote red in their new home? Why wouldn’t blue collar workers vote in their best interest?
We KNOW they delete votes, not just switch them. In Virginia, during the last election, there were 700K votes that just went missing without every being counted in the first place! If that’s happening in Virginia, it’s safe to say crap like that is happening all over in every major population center. Meaning vote totals are just completely wrong even with the Pillow Man data, Audit findings, etc. There’s no telling how many votes just straight up never got counted.
We’ve long since theorized that they picked a pattern for certain counties and just gradually increased their cheating to fit the pattern (A theory which has basically been proven). So it makes sense for them to delete and shred votes that would mess with that pattern. An influx of red voters, whether by interstate immigration or by a natural increase in red voting job/population bases, goes counter to a narrative of a specific area becoming more blue. So they have to get rid of the overvote by deleting votes digitally and physically shredding ballots, to fit the narrative.
I know it seems like some areas are filled to the brim with moronic liberals, but when you’re talking about places with a million + people, you hvae to remember most people aren’t loud obnoxious liberals. Most people just work a 9-5 blue collar job to provide for their family and spend their free time trying to relax, or enjoying their family life. The overwhelming majority of people aren’t social media addicts, or entitled snobs who need to be the center of attention, etc. (Liberal stereotypes).
So seriously, when you put things into perspective like this, does anyone think there are ANY legitimately blue areas in the country? Is the cheating really THAT bad or are there some places that are truly lost?
I wonder the same thing. I looked at the numbers after the mid-terms in 2018. I am not a numbers person and hadn't even been interested in politics until a year or so before, so nothing to compare to previously. But as I looked at the races around my state the Conservatives were squeaking out wins barely over 50%. But the Dem incumbents races were ALL almost identical 80% range. So when Dr. Frank started talking about his algorithms a few months ago my mind went ding, ding, ding. These were of course all in urban areas. My conclusion is they have cheated to get these seats and cheated to hold them for decades. Decades of misery for their constituents.
Thank you for this post. I have considered this theory, although not is as much depth. I just can't fathom why the people of Nancy Pelosi or AOC's districts actually continue to vote for them. Unless you factor in the cheating. Then it all makes sens.
This is why we need to audit all 50
When I lived up in Portland years ago. I honestly never ran into 1 raving lefty what so ever. Eccentric people yes, but the freaks that you see now on the street--no. Even when I was taking a few college classes, most of the kids were pretty level headed, and surprisingly the instructors as well. In fact the guy who taught the eng102 class was definitely what would be called a "conspiracy theorist". Chem instructor hated hillary....
Same thing goes for AZ, I have literally never met anyone who voted for no name, yet that bastard kept getting elected time and time again. I used to blame the older folks, the retirees, but again no one in that age bracket I knew voted for him or people they knew either.
Granted my opinion on this is anecdotal, but I agree with OP, the voting results do not match the man on the street info. This falls right in line with the lefty BS line of "the parties switched", which know at the core was never true. Of course, they are openly the uniparty but before that happened decades ago, R's and D's were quite different in philosophy.
In order to bolster this idea, I think it would be good idea that those of us that can code/script put our skills to use to help and further the truth about historical election data, especially in those so called contested counties or reported blue areas.
I graduated university in a major city about a decade ago and even as recently as then seeing some kool-aid haired freak running around was very rare. Only had like two vocal Obama supporters in my entire graduating class as well.
exactly right. I would not be surprised that when all is said and done, there are no blue cities or states, period. I think that the "blues" are just a tiny minority that is overblown by the media. Just like the REAL number of homosexuals is 2%, the real number of folks who voted bleu is probably less than 10%.
DC ... the seat of the leeching bureaucracy. Filled to the brim with useless lawyers, staffers, power-players, brokers, cheats, frauds, hucksters, etc. I would say it's blue.
I have a hard time believing Chicago would be red. I lived there. They’re all libs.
To add: they no doubt still cheat. I don’t think Lori Beetlejuice Lightfoot became mayor organically.
No real evidence atm, but anecdotally, I believe you are 1/2 right. Many or most areas are cheated so badly, they are, in reality, deep red.
Having said that, not only are their some deeply stupid people out there, their are people who are so intelligent, they are huberisly self delluded and/or deceived into being blue. There are a LOT of weak willed people who will sheep to avoid conflict too.
Down in Louisville the west side is divided red/blue, more blue because of generational indoctrination. "You keep your city/state/fed benefits because we are protecting you from the evil red. Vote blue no matter who."
Large college population also mostly blue due to indoctrination. 20 years ago it was bad, can't imagine how harsh they are on students now.
Still, I could see 40-60% of that city being blue, but mainly because of indoctrination and MSM brainwashing.
See I used to think that too, but that’s another thing I think they’re over representing on to fit the narrative. When I was in college, which wasn’t too long ago (Gen Zer here) Pretty much no one was liberal. Yeah there were a few people here and there, but most people I met in college were fairly conservative and actually argued with the liberal professors on lots of topics. I’ll never forget this one time where a guy in my sociology class (needed the credit) argued with the professor over climate change and modern racism. Basically ended with everyone in the class with exception of one person disagreeing with the liberal professor and telling him he’s wrong.
I can’t speak for millennials, but I don’t think they’re as cucked as we’ve been led to believe with people like the salty cracker and others waking up and coming over to our side after shaking off their brainwashing. That being said I can tell you from first hand experience, Gen Z is NOT anywhere near as blue as they’d lead you to believe. In fact most statistics prove that Gen Z is actually MORE conservative than previous generations as a whole, based on “official data” anyway, which means that they’re conservative enough to overcome the data manipulation.
Beyond that I do agree that there ARE a lot of mild sheeple. BUT I think a lot of them are closeted conservatives. It’s a weird phenomenon in “blue” areas. I believe last year there were some studies that showed, something like 65-70% of people in blue areas with conservative beliefs will either refuse to talk about their political beliefs or lie about them in public because they feel pressured over the consequences to their social life, career, etc.
There’s just so many factors to all of this, that it’s almost impossible to tell the truth in the current situation. But nearly all of the circumstantial and anecdotal evidence seems to be pointing to the conclusion that liberals are an even smaller minority than we previously thought, and most cities are probably pink-light red at the very least, if not medium-dark red in some areas.
I could agree to this.
Yep you got some like my uncle who flipped on so many things after his wife died. Also people like an old friend of my dad's whom he had an argument with recently as the guy somehow thought the democrats hadn't changed in 30 years and he'd somehow not heard of CRT. I've met many who thought we were making up this woke stuff until it finally happened to them personally.
Damn fine work PEDE!!!!
Top Shelf !!!
OP ... you are definitely on to something huge.
In WA state, all of King County isn't even half the people. Seattle is tiny.
And King County is NOT blue.
Most of the tech workers I knew were libertarian or right. Very few dems, and even then they hated the D party.
Pierce County did NOT vote blue in 2020. No way!
I like this!! Hope it is true, and we will find out when the audits are done and we have another election. Good stuff!!
I hope this is true. But keep in mind, anyplace with easy welfare checks will be a magnet for Democrat voters and starving artist types. That may be a real counter-weight to your analysis. But good job. I certainly hope it plays out this way.
Most places, even the most liberal of places, generally place limits on who can receive welfare. Typically it's either exclusively for unemployed people who have a disability (which unfortunately can mean fat turds who don't want to work) or people who DO have a job, but are still below the poverty line. Using either statistic, the numbers still don't match up.
If you go with people who are unemployed (still using Austin and Travis country) it's 4.5% or 58,500 people. Using people below the poverty line it's roughly 14% rounded up, or 182,000 people. Keep in mind, the latter statistic includes people who under the age of 18, so they can receive and additional check for each child. Most families on welfare have at least 2 kids (generally more, but I'm being conservative in my estimations) so let's assume that number is cut in half to account for all of the underage people who can't legally vote. So that's 91,000 using that statistic.
Even if you combine both of these numbers together and assume every single one of them vote blue (which they wouldn't, I know people IRL on welfare who are die hard conservatives) the numbers still don't add up and explain where all of the confessed registered republicans and GOP leaning independent blue state refugee votes are. I mentioned 150K people from california moved to Travis county over the past decade. That's JUST california, no other state. There are dozens of other blue states with people fleeing to Texas for freedom. Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, New York, Illinois, etc. all have people fleeing to Texas, and specifically Austin by the 10 of thousands a year. There's probably a good half a million or more red votes in Travis county, just based on blue state refugees that are unaccounted for.
Good research. Your thesis sounds good to me. But there is no lack of fools in my neck of the urban jungle.
Seattly truly is a liberal hellhole. I know it's hard to believe, but everybody really does think like that. From baristas to bar owners, to cab drivers, to bankers.
The stupid is strong.