Anecdote: where I'm at, the rural folk are all completely for Trump. You don't find a small smattering of Democrats here or there.
But those blue cities? There are still plenty of Trump supporters and Republicans in them, they're merely overshadowed by Democrats. Or maybe not, maybe some of the cases are sheer fraud, it's believable at this point based on national evidence for 2020.
Wyoming has half the population that just Portland, OR does, and that's at best a mid-size city. You're having an issue visualizing scale. Also, people vote blue in red states, but do so in small enough numbers that they tend to be quiet about it.
And all of this back and forth about voting as representation of what "the country" actually thinks completely ignores the fact that about a third of eligible voters don't, and the margins are always much closer than 30%.
Anecdote: where I'm at, the rural folk are all completely for Trump. You don't find a small smattering of Democrats here or there.
But those blue cities? There are still plenty of Trump supporters and Republicans in them, they're merely overshadowed by Democrats. Or maybe not, maybe some of the cases are sheer fraud, it's believable at this point based on national evidence for 2020.
Wyoming has half the population that just Portland, OR does, and that's at best a mid-size city. You're having an issue visualizing scale. Also, people vote blue in red states, but do so in small enough numbers that they tend to be quiet about it.
And all of this back and forth about voting as representation of what "the country" actually thinks completely ignores the fact that about a third of eligible voters don't, and the margins are always much closer than 30%.