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My new favorite map shows how Trump redrew our political boundaries
The Washington Post ^ | May 11, 2018 | Aaron Blake

Posted on 05/11/2018 6:30:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

President Trump hasn't just rewritten the political rule book; he has also redrawn the political map. While plenty like to complain about how the polls got the 2016 election wrong, they got it wrong in only one region of the country: along the Rust Belt and into the Upper Midwest. And that's where Trump pulled out his narrow victory.

We and plenty of others have been somewhat consumed with how that shift came about and whether it represents a fundamental realignment in American politics. But I still don't think people realize how big a shift it was or where exactly it occurred.

Luckily, a new map put together by The Washington Post's graphics team shows it better than just about anything we've seen to date.

Inside Dan Balz's big, must-read piece on the Midwest's relationship with Trump is a map that shows the last time each Trump county voted Republican in a presidential race. As you'll see, there is a massive cluster of counties around the upper Mississippi River that hadn't gone Republican since the 1990s or even the 1980s. Across the rest of the country, such counties are very few and far between....

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Campaign News; Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: 2016; counties; map; midwest; trump; ttiuwop
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1 posted on 05/11/2018 6:30:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Clearly, the maps could change, Mark Levin was griping, rightfully, how Virginia and North Carolina were once reliable Republican states. It’s really taken someone like Trump for us to regroup.


2 posted on 05/11/2018 6:39:41 PM PDT by BeadCounter
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think what the GOP had completely lost sight of, was that the GOP voters are for AMERICA.

Not China. Not Mexico.

The entire GOP was so busy selling out America, so busy being for illegal immigration, and no borders. So much for sending American industries (one after the other, after the next, for an entire generation) overseas, that they completely lost sight of who was voting for them.

Trump gets it.

Now, thus far he hasn’t done anything to turn that around. But he’s focused on it, bigtime.

If he stays on the subject. If he turns around American trade, brings a lot of it back to America. Then he will rescue the GOP. For real.

If however Trump is just making sounds and doesn’t really intend to bring back US businesses to America.

Then it is over. The GOP, Trump, and America.

But I think Trump is for the USA. Trump alone. Gets it.


3 posted on 05/11/2018 6:40:41 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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4 posted on 05/11/2018 6:41:20 PM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The comments @ the article are priceless ... so many of them just don’t get it.

I can see riots taking place if they don’t win back the House this fall.


5 posted on 05/11/2018 6:42:14 PM PDT by edh
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“””I think what the GOP had completely lost sight of, was that the GOP voters are for AMERICA.”””

They’re lawyers who never have to go to court and they get rich doing it.


6 posted on 05/11/2018 6:44:42 PM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: LS

Paging LS!


7 posted on 05/11/2018 6:47:44 PM PDT by MattinNJ (I am optimistic about the USA for the first time in a decade)
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To: edh

The GOP is very eager to get the DNC back into power.


8 posted on 05/11/2018 6:49:48 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is the midwest the next south for the democratic party?

https://amgreatness.com/2018/05/09/is-the-midwest-the-next-south-for-the-democratic-party/


9 posted on 05/11/2018 6:55:26 PM PDT by Atlantan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Pretty clear why hildabeast believes she won. NOT😹😹🍿🍻
10 posted on 05/11/2018 7:18:58 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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I can see riots taking place if they don’t win back the House this fall

Riots?

They'll be necklacing at the DNC.

11 posted on 05/11/2018 7:21:07 PM PDT by Jim Noble (The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I live in that midwestern blob and travelled the area quite a bit in the weeks leading up to the election, and you saw nothing but Trump signs. Lots of democrats saw the light.


12 posted on 05/11/2018 7:44:48 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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It amazes me that Democrat voters have yet to figure out that the Democrats don’t give a rat’s ass about them. Democrats are all about POWER! And if that means sacrificing loyal Democrat voters, they will sure as Hell do it.


13 posted on 05/11/2018 7:49:44 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici
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I visited relatives in Wisconsin the week before the election. The state was covered with Trump signs.


14 posted on 05/11/2018 7:50:30 PM PDT by Atlantan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The comments are priceless. These idiots actually believe the Russians aided Trump; Trump hates women and Republicans are active in “voter supression”.

Never ONCE did any of these idiots think that their Party SCREWED OVER BERNIE, and that Trump won by attracting votes that the Democrat Party has ALWAYS taken for granted.

Dumbasses. And I hope they get there smug asses kicked in 2020 too.


15 posted on 05/11/2018 7:58:06 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici
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MY favorite map was one I saw here on FR after the 2016 election. It showed all of the Counties in the US and was colored blue or red.

Trump won 98.2%

Clinton won 1.8%


16 posted on 05/11/2018 7:58:47 PM PDT by octex
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And I’d wager a big chunk of Hillery’s 1.8% was stolen.

We’ve got to win big this fall in the mid-terms. I’m volunteering to help GOTV. Hope we all do that.


17 posted on 05/11/2018 8:04:38 PM PDT by TrueFact (The Republicans keep putting the stopper back in the swamp drain.)
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County map of 2016 election.

https://brilliantmaps.com/2016-county-election-map/


18 posted on 05/11/2018 8:06:08 PM PDT by Atlantan
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I would love to show your counties map to on-the-street democrats and tell them that the red counties were won by Clinton and ask them what it says about Hillary and why she lost. Then tell them that they were actually won by Trump.

That would be fun!

19 posted on 05/11/2018 8:26:16 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill: google,TWITTER,FACEBOOK,WaPo,Hollywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“Trump's style rubs even many Midwestern supporters who voted for him the wrong way.“

The guy is CLUELESS. At this point Americans don’t care about Trump’s “style”. Americans see results. They see a man who gets things done. It is so obvious that it is impossible for the media to lie and manipulate effectively. The media is so discredited that Americans realize there is always an agenda in their reporting and can see right through it.

20 posted on 05/12/2018 1:23:30 AM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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