CookieDamage
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« on: January 11, 2022, 12:24:38 PM » |
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The issue is that rural white NE, especially Vermont, is not as evangelical or ultra religious as other rural white areas of the US. A lot of secular liberals, hippies, and Jews from NY and MA moved to Vermont over the later 20th century, so that's why it's as blue as it is. Western Mass is also very liberal as well.
However, if you look at the 2016 trend map, you'd see New England isn't immune from the rural-urban polarization. I'd say Maine is relatively similar to the national trend. The urbanized coast is blue while the interior rural areas are red (and have been getting more and more GOP). Western Mass trended solidly republican in 2016, as did rural CT and NH. The urban/suburban areas, comparatively, trended Dem.
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