Why did New England swing so much against Trump?

[Secretary of State Liberal Hack]

They thought trump as a moderate who while a loudmouth would break with the party line on issues like minimum wage and abortion. It's a very secular area and his evangelical panering went down terribly in the region.

[Secretary of State Liberal Hack]

He was toxic in New England.

Why so much more so than in 2016 though?

Religious culture war bullsh**t, New England has an anti-immigration streak but they don't like christ being shoved down their throats. Red meat on abortion, and generally governing like a conservative republican didn't go down well there.

They like "Moderates" who can pretend to be bi-partisan and able to get stuff done. Trump had that image in 2016, but it basicaly vanished in 2020.

[Secretary of State Liberal Hack]

They thought trump as a moderate who while a loudmouth would break with the party line on issues like minimum wage and abortion. It's a very secular area and his evangelical panering went down terribly in the region.

Why weren't those kind of voters a factor in the rest of the nation, such as the Midwest?

Biden got a large swing in Minnesota though whether that's from hipster Christians or secular voters is an open question. The rest of the midwest is fairly religious. Furthermore New England doesn't have the same kind of working-class rust belt blight, the area mostly bounced back from deindustrialization or was fairly unaffected so there was less trumpian "sticking it to the man" appele in this region compared to others. Places like Coons or the Maine-2nd that had been affected badly by job losses mostly stuck with trump.