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Anytime you see a map of the US with "preference by county", go ahead and pull up a map of the US at night from space next to it.
You'll see that once choice is generally where electricity is, and the other choice is where it's dark.
This doesnt check out because the earth is flat and space isnt real
This guy's already pregaming for the long dark into fascism
Mostmaps people use to make some point, especially some political point, turn out to just be population density maps.
Which is why the overlay in this instance is so troubling.
Just remember for much of the Post WWII era, Congress AND the Senate, and fairly often the presidency was held by the Democrats. It is only really in the wake of the post end of gold standard that the Republican party saw growth in it's numbers, basically in lock step with inflation. And I don't mean inflation approved by government made up CPI numbers that are doctored through changing methodology to promote as close to the supposed golden value of 2%, when if we look at most of history the real golden number for inflation was somewhere around 0%. The only benefactors of ending the gold standard were the wealthy. The major benefactors of free trade agreements were the wealthy. The only benefactors of shipping manufacturing to China was Western Governments hell bent on isolating the Soviet Union, when - that was hardly necessary, and practically speaking ineffective.
When people talk about gerrymandering, and so many other issues: What I start to see is a planned distraction, one masking a much older, deeper, and more fundamental truth that eats and rots the foundation.
Pure Fiat has been disastrous for productivity in the West. And that too has been disastrous for birth rates that again, fall in lock step starting with the oil crisis - and continuing on with disastrous fiscal policy, followed by export of good well paying blue collar jobs to foreign nations - removing the value creation from the local economy, and handing it to nations who politically are opposed to the wests way of life.
The only people who were wanting to change that in some way - got assassinated.