Michigan 1984

[Arbitrage1980]

Why did Reagan do so well in MI 1984? He won it by 19 while underperforming in the Rust Belt overall. Was it due to Japanese steel tariffs helping the autoworkers? Reagan won every county in the lower peninsula except Wayne (most counties won in lower peninsula since Ike 1952). Even Washtenaw, which went for McGovern, went for Reagan.

[OSR stands with Israel]

MI was more Republican than the nation in the 1980s as keep in mind HW also won MI by 9 points. The reason had to do with that was the 1980s were a decade in which the suburbs were titanium R and generally how R they were had to do with how negative the major city was viewed by people in the area.

Detroit by the 1980s had collapsed and due to that Oakland/Macomb went massively R along with the other Detroit burbs and thats why Reagan did that well in MI.