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BRTD
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« on: July 26, 2023, 12:37:58 PM » |
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Unfortunately Trump kind of killed all the interesting patterns. One that I suppose remains is Carver, which used to be a true Titanium R place and hasn't voted D for President since 1932, but now is heavily divided between its D-leaning eastern suburbs and the still uber-R rural German parts in the west. It's actually notable in that Biden carried 3/5 of its county commission seats, making it the only county Biden "flipped" 2016-2020 on this metric, even if it's kind of meaningless for how the results break down because they're nonpartisan elections.
Stearns is kind of interesting too, I had a discussion with Xahar a few months back about it, and the polarization between St. Cloud and the rest of it.
Rice is also interesting due to its polarization, but it was arguably more interesting pre-Trump, now it's Northfield vs. everywhere else, while previously it at least also had Faribault in with Northfield. What is kind of interesting though is how Northfield's "suburbs" vote, they seem to be pretty swingy areas despite being really just rural areas on the outskirts of Northfield (and in the event of Dundas, basically a stretch of strip malls and a few residential areas that sits near Northfield.)
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