For those who don't think that nearly all of Rural America can end up voting like much of the South in the long-term: you're wrong.
I don't think the trends we have undeniably experienced will progress indefinitely to the point where we actually see this ridiculous urban-rural divide maps (that by then would have the GOP consistently getting its ass beat over and over) before something fundamentally shakes up our nation's voting patterns ... this seems to be absolutely crazy to this site.
I spent a large chunk of my childhood in one of these rural WWC Midwestern counties that atlas loves to fetishize about. I can’t possibly imagine what would make these voters shift even somewhat significantly more Dem. Nicole Galloway got BTFO in said county and she’s the only successful Missouri Democrat left on the bench and she couldn’t even crack 35% in the vast majority of rural counties against possibly the worst non-Todd Akin Republican statewide nominee in decades.
A realignment would make those voters shift more Dem.
It wasn't so long ago when you could have made the same argument for many major suburban counties in this country.
"Orange County hasn't gone Democratic since FDR, I can't imagine what would make these voters vote Democratic"
"The Atlanta suburbs have been titanium R since the 1980s, there's no way they'll ever vote Democratic!"
"Northern Virginia has been the backbone of the Virginia GOP since the 1950s, there's no way it could ever vote Democratic!"
