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Charles Bastille's avatar

It is county level. I'm not going to go through each instance, but in Montana, the blue areas are counties with Indian reservations. Native Americans typically vote Democratic. I assume the same is true for South Dakota. MS and SC both have many Black majority rural counties.

Arapahoe County (Denver) is blue. Colorado Springs has 12 colleges/universities, offsetting the military, who did not vote as solidly for Trump in the last election as Republicans will have you believe anyway, and has a sizable minority demographic.

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Michael G's avatar

Also glad to see the Colorado Springs student vote out vote the large right-wing evangelical community there.

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Michael G's avatar

This makes sense. Thank you. Lightly populated Native American and persons of color minority counties was my suspicion.

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Charles Bastille's avatar

This is wild conjecture, but I think that one of the rare recent civil rights wins, giving more autonomy to Native Americans governance, has possibly helped counter voter suppression efforts. But I say that without any thing to back it up with. Just a hopeful hunch.

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