Washington is the biggest surprise to me given how the rural pacific northwest is home to a lot of far-right crazies. I guess that non-college whites in the Seattle area just outnumber them and also many are probably counter-cultural types that didn’t get a college degree because they were pursuing a more artistic career.
This goes to my theory that Republicans may be nearing their ceiling with non-college whites (except perhaps in New England) because many of the remainder who still vote Democrat do because they’re committed social liberals.
For whatever reason, it is assumed that western Washington is an annex of Microsoft or Amazon when Seattle was known as a subsidiary of Boeing, with all that this implies. Tacoma, Everett, Renton and a lot of other parts of the Seattle metro area are still quite 'white working class'. They are also full of Democrats.
