If to win a state in the EC, you needed a majority of counties, how would states vote?

[ProgressiveModerate]

I just thought of this idea. If to win a state in the EC, you needed a majority of counties, which states would be Dem and which states woul be Rep. Also, how would Dems win under this scenario?

[TheOnlyOne234]

Taking the result from 2016 democrats would win 7 states
California, hawaii, new jersey, Connecticut, rhode island, Massachusetts, Vermont and DC

The democrats in order to win would basically have to become a new party. They would have to ignore much of the needs of massive population centers and instead focus on the rural counties. Essentially it would be impossible

[bagelman]

Talk about rotten boroughs to the max. The US wouldn't really have elections at that point.

[Morgan Kingsley]

George Wallace would also win Florida in 1968

[OBD]

Interestingly, the tipping-point county in Oregon (Trump+24) is actually to the right of Mississippi's tipping-point county (Trump+18).

But yeah, this scenario would obviously break American democracy, though some states (ones with little rural Democrat support and Democrats concentrated solely in large urban counties) will have more tilted results than others (ones with significant Democratic rural bases).