If my soul was made of stone
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E: -8.13, S: -5.57
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« on: December 31, 2020, 12:02:37 PM » |
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Fairly socially conservative region (big fans of Casey Sr. and Rep. Murtha) that had started moving away from the Dems with the turn of the century and voted heavily for HRC in the primary. Obama still performed respectably there, with Fayette and Greene decided by less than a point apiece, but the writing was already on the wall, and the great collapse came in the following decade. Beaver has interestingly remained quite open to voting for downballot Dems such as Casey Jr. and Wolf. The comparative performance vs. coal country counties to the south was overall a little better, and the holdouts such as Elliott or McDowell seem more like highly localized flukes than indicative of any meaningful regional trends, and have in fact swung much harder to the GOP now due to being less economically diverse and lacking metropolitan connections.
Or maybe they just really, really like Vietnam veterans named John, so much that they decided to stick with the GOP thereafter.
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