[Momaw Nadon]

High population density favors Democrats a lot more than Republicans.

2004 Election Red and Blue States

Rank, State, Population density (per sq. mi)

1 New Jersey 1,134.4
2 Rhode Island 1,003.2
3 Massachusetts 809.8
4 Connecticut 702.9
5 Maryland 541.9
6 New York 501.9
7 Delaware 401.1
8 Florida 296.4
9 Ohio 277.3
10 Pennsylvania 274.0
11 Illinois 223.4
12 California 217.1
13 Hawaii 188.6 72.83
14 Virginia 178.8
15 Michigan 175.0
16 Indiana 169.5
17 North Carolina 165.2
18 Georgia 141.4
19 Tennessee 138.0
20 New Hampshire 137.8
21 South Carolina 133.2
22 Louisiana 102.6
23 Kentucky 101.7
24 Wisconsin 98.8
25 Washington 88.6
26 Alabama 87.6
27 Missouri 81.2
28 Texas 79.6
29 West Virginia 75.1
30 Vermont 65.8
31 Minnesota 61.8
32 Mississippi 60.6
33 Iowa 52.4
34 Arkansas 51.3
35 Oklahoma 50.3
36 Arizona 45.2
37 Colorado 41.5
38 Maine 41.3
39 Oregon 35.6
40 Kansas 32.9
41 Utah 27.2
42 Nebraska 22.3
43 Nevada 18.2
44 Idaho 15.6
45 New Mexico 15.0
46 South Dakota 9.9
47 North Dakota 9.3
48 Montana 6.2
49 Wyoming 5.1
50 Alaska 1.1

[Momaw Nadon]

[GovernmentShrinker]

Indeed it does. And a lot of those Democrats grew up in Republican/conservative families in sparsely populated areas, and their views changed after they settled into a crowded metropolitan area. I'm not totally anti-city, as they do have certain advantages, but I think there's a huge psychological/social/political cost to allowing crowded living conditions to become the norm. Crowding is inherently antithetical to self-sufficiency, and when people don't see self-sufficiency as a desirable quality, it's a small step to accept dependency on government as normal and healthy.