Tartarus Sauce
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« on: May 02, 2021, 07:33:28 PM » |
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People are mentioning the Midwest agricultural belt shifting to Stevenson, but it wasn't strictly a Midwestern phenomenon nor was it all of the Midwest. There's a contiguous stretch of land from the upper Midwest to the West Coast where the vast majority of rural counties shifted from Eisenhower to Stevenson. California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri all witnessed these countercyclical shifts from 1952-1956. The trend skips over Colorado, doesn't puncture into the South outside of northwestern Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle, and ends in western Wisconsin. Eastern Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio don't experience the rural Democratic shift.
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