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RINO Tom
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« on: February 13, 2017, 10:33:17 AM »

Eh, maybe something like this?:



More in favor of free trade/globalization
More opposed to free trade/globalization

I'd say this is about right, but maybe add the Plains states and Idaho to the free trade column?  I also never really saw Tennessee or South Carolina as protectionist places whatsoever.  Anywho, I'll also suggest that a large majority of Americans don't have strong feelings.  I mean, in 2009, Republican voters were much more in favor of free trade than Democratic voters, but if you chuck Barrack Obama's name onto a trade deal and put it all over the news, you will naturally see those numbers move.
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RINO Tom
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« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2017, 10:52:28 AM »

^ Yeah, I think a lot of us (including me) tend to think of Washington and Oregon and California as so socially liberal that THAT alone is why they are so Democratic, but they really are to the left economically, at least in their population centers.  I know WA has like no sales tax or something, but it's not exactly a libertarian paradise, haha.  The stereotypical Starbucks liberal might be snooty about cultural stuff, but he/she is ABSOLUTELY an economic justice warrior, as well.
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RINO Tom
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« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2017, 11:17:57 AM »
« Edited: February 15, 2017, 11:19:40 AM by RINO Tom »



Best guess.  10 Clinton states and 16 Trump states.

I'll go ahead and say, though, that the only ones I'm sure about are the Plains states and corn belt being in favor and the MI-OH-KY-WV-PA region being against.
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RINO Tom
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« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2017, 11:56:10 AM »


Well, when your opponent is anti-free trade, too, I guess you can vote on other things, huh? Smiley
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RINO Tom
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« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2017, 01:57:23 PM »

This is my more accurate map (gray states either don't care strongly one way or the other or would have their partisans flip based on what the current party leader was saying, LOL):

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RINO Tom
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« Reply #5 on: February 15, 2017, 09:14:39 PM »

I'd like to see the evidence on Iowa.  Clinton was, vocally, a protectionist; the state swinging to Trump is not evidence of being anti-free trade, and the large agricultural section is very pro-free trade.
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