The hidden deplorables don't care about Republicans, their crap world revolves around Trump
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It’s hard to fully grasp the massive increase in voter participation this general election. This graph, on Georgia’s turnout, does a pretty good job of visualizing it: xI'm trying a new type of visualization here: this is three decades of GeorThe hidden deplorables don't care about Republicans, their crap world revolves around Trump
It’s hard to fully grasp the massive increase in voter participation this general election. This graph, on Georgia’s turnout, does a pretty good job of visualizing it: xI'm trying a new type of visualization here: this is three decades of Georgia presidential elections in bar chart form, so that we can see county-level changes in turnout as well as vote share. Smaller counties are bucketed together by media market to reduce the clutter. pic.twitter.com/B6Yoy44lMd— David Jarman (@DavidLJarman) November 23, 2020 That’s 369,000 new votes for Donald Trump compared to his first election. It took a historically herculean effort for Democrats to overcome the massive wave of disgruntled rural white Americans—594,000 more votes compared to 2016. (You can see the Florida version of that chart here.) We know where our votes came from—historically underperforming Black, brown, Asian, and young voters, along with gains in the once-Republican suburbs. But theirs? Who were these people who only showed up for Trump in 2016 and 2020, confounding the public polling and horrifying all rational, upstanding Americans? My “hidden deplorables” theory is closing on the answer. Read more