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ProfessorGAC

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20. Interesting

Reply to Collimator (Original post)

Mon Mar 9, 2026, 05:50 PM

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There's a sea of red to our west, and what she says describes that area pretty well.
One big medical family: one night real estate family; one big banking family; a couple factory farms.
Those people have a LOT of influence, so a blue collar town votes preponderantly R.
Go east to the much bigger county, and you get blue. To the north, purple. Go far enough west, a county that narrowly went for Trump, but has a D rep, a D state rep, a D state senator, and voted 57/43 for Duckworth.
But, those counties are majority urban.
I guess I buy much of what she's selling.

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Interesting ProfessorGAC Monday #20

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