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Ohio Reliably Red?

calamity said:
Ohio used to be mostly controlled by the heavy industrial cities up north, which were all D. Those days are long gone. Now, the money in Ohio is further south. As mentioned, the areas around Columbus and Cincinnati are where the growth is.

Politically, Cincinnati is really Kentucky. Mitch McConnell would win there, without a doubt. But, that should not be a surprise, since Cincinnati is only one bridge away from his state. The area North of it is heavily invested in defense, especially aerospace. And, those people are always dyed in the wool Right Wing.

Columbus is a little more diverse. It would be thought of as being a lot like a small city in the Northeastern US, like Hartford, but it's still has that flavor of West Virginia to it. Maybe the best city to compare Columbus, Ohio to is Indianapolis: socially conservative but progressive economically.

Maybe that is what is happening here in Ohio. We are becoming more like Indiana: a state still mad at its northern half for all those years the Union voters forced their hand to the left. :shrug:
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That may be a fair conjecture.
 
TurtleDude said:
really?
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Yes, I believe this is the trend within the greater part of the earning's curve, until the much higher earnings are reached.

Think middle & upper middle-class, white-collar, and working professionals. Exclude the wealthy. Although in my neck of the woods there's a fair amount of wealthy that indeed go Dem, but there's also a high percentage of Jews here too that might explain it. Ex: "J.B. Pritzker".

The demographics of the GOP on the other hand, are shifting to the ends of the earning's curve: The poor and rural white (barely) working-class, and the wealthy and business owners.

We can also see the geographical education and earnings shift, with less education and earnings in rural areas, and the educated flocking to the higher earnings in the cities and suburbs.

Rather than produce a link, I'm essentially narrating what I believe I'm seeing around me lately. Feel free to comment or disagree, if you'd like.
 
Chomsky said:
Yes, I believe this is the trend within the greater part of the earning's curve, until the much higher earnings are reached.

Think middle & upper middle-class, white-collar, and working professionals. Exclude the wealthy. Although in my neck of the woods there's a fair amount of wealthy that indeed go Dem, but there's also a high percentage of Jews here too that might explain it. Ex: "J.B. Pritzker".

The demographics of the GOP on the other hand, are shifting to the ends of the earning's curve: The poor and rural white (barely) working-class, and the wealthy and business owners.

We can also see the geographical education and earnings shift, with less education and earnings in rural areas, and the educated flocking to the higher earnings in the cities and suburbs.

Rather than produce a link, I'm essentially narrating what I believe I'm seeing around me lately. Feel free to comment or disagree, if you'd like.
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Makes sense, the ultra rich need the rubes to vote for those politicians who support their rip-off schemes.

"Hey! Squirrel....er, I mean Mexican Caravan."
 
calamity said:
Makes sense, the ultra rich need the rubes to vote for those politicians who support their rip-off schemes.

"Hey! Squirrel....er, I mean Mexican Caravan."
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many of the ultra rich support big government because that creates the mechanism they think they can use to control other people
 
calamity said:
Makes sense, the ultra rich need the rubes to vote for those politicians who support their rip-off schemes.

"Hey! Squirrel....er, I mean Mexican Caravan."
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The bolded seems to be the GOP playbook for nearly a decade, now. Essentially the whole Obama years. Except now, they've really added nationalistic xenophobia to the mix.
 
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