Roll Roons
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« on: November 22, 2020, 06:26:20 PM » |
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« edited: November 22, 2020, 06:42:52 PM by Roll Roons »
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Rural areas also have something to do with it.
A lot of the rural counties in Pennsylvania have been solidly Republican pretty much since the Civil War, so Democrats have had little room to fall as they've made gains in the suburbs of Philly (gains that largely started in the 90s).
However, rural southeastern Ohio was fairly friendly to Democrats until not that long ago, but their collapse in this area has been swift and hard. Ohio's suburbs have trended left in the Trump era, but they've traditionally been much more Republican than those in Pennsylvania, so the change just hasn't come fast enough to counteract the decline in Appalachia.
Another factor is that the Pennsylvania Democrats are much more competent than their counterparts in Ohio.
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