Purple America Has All But Disappeared
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More than 61 percent of voters cast ballots in counties that gave either Clinton or Trump at least 60 percent of the major-party vote last November. That’s up from 50 percent of voters who lived in such counties in 2012 and 39 percent in 1992 – an accelerating trend that confirms that America’s political fabric, geographically, is tearing apart.
Of the nation’s 3,113 counties (or county equivalents), just 303 were decided by single-digit margins – less than 10 percent. In contrast, 1,096 counties fit that description in 1992, even though that election featured a wider national spread.1 During the same period, the number of extreme landslide counties – those decided by margins exceeding 50 percentage points – exploded from 93 to 1,196, or over a third of the nation’s counties.
Source: fivethirtyeight.com
Related posts:
– TrumpLand and Clinton Archipelago
– 2016 U.S. presidential election results in three maps
But still not enough to win the popular vote
Obviously, if the country is coming apart as these maps clearly show, the American people face a choice. Will we remain politically united by force, as Lincoln chose to do via war and conquest, or will we agree to part company peacefully via various secessions and a reordering of our political arrangements? For any civilized people I think the choice is obvious. #Calexit and #Brexit are merely the tip of the spear of change that’s coming. The sooner we accept the inevitable the better off, and happier we’ll all be IMO.
Now this is sad