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I think Tennessee was the most lopsided state one way for any states over 10 Electoral Votes. It was 64% Trump. Vermont was the only state that was that high for Kamala.

Wyoming (72%), West Virginia (70%), and Oklahoma (67%), and North Dakota (67%) were the only states higher for Trump.

Arkansas, Alabama, and Kentucky came in at 64% as well.

Every SEC state went for Trump. So Southeastern Conference clearly went one way. I am thinking the Big12 may have been 100% Trump as well (pending Arizona holds for Trump).
 
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I don't think anyone expected anything differently in TN. Enjoy the victory lap though
 
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volbound1700 said:
I think Tennessee was the most lopsided state one way for any states over 10 Electoral Votes. It was 64% Trump. Vermont was the only state that was that high for Kamala.

Wyoming (72%), West Virginia (70%), and Oklahoma (67%), and North Dakota (67%) were the only states higher for Trump.

Arkansas, Alabama, and Kentucky came in at 64% as well.

Every SEC state went for Trump. So Southeastern Conference clearly went one way. I am thinking the Big12 may have been 100% Trump as well (pending Arizona holds for Trump).
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Dems are always talking about the parties in the South „switched side“ in the 1970s to explain away their racist past with the myth of Nixon‘s „Southern Strategy“.
What most people don’t remeber is just how recently Tennessee was solidly Democrat dominated. In the 1980s and 1990s we had Senators Gore and Sasser and Governor McWhorter. In the Chattanooga area, Marylin Lloyd held her house seat forever. The big watershed seemed to be 2000; the time when Gore lost the presidency because he and his party had drifted so far to the left. TN had been solidly red for a long time since.
It was that way all across the South. Most Southern Senators were Democrat until the new millennium. Texas even had Governor Ann Richards not that long ago.
The democrat loss of the South was rapid and it was recent. I Hope we are seeing the exact same process playing out in the rust belt now.
 
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Dems are always talking about the parties in the South „switched side“ in the 1970s to explain away their racist past with the myth of Nixon‘s „Southern Strategy“.
What most people don’t remeber is just how recently Tennessee was solidly Democrat dominated. In the 1980s and 1990s we had Senators Gore and Sasser and Governor McWhorter. In the Chattanooga area, Marylin Lloyd held her house seat forever. The big watershed seemed to be 2000; the time when Gore lost the presidency because he and his party had drifted so far to the left. TN had been solidly red for a long time since.
It was that way all across the South. Most Southern Senators were Democrat until the new millennium. Texas even had Governor Ann Richards not that long ago.
The democrat loss of the South was rapid and it was recent. I Hope we are seeing the exact same process playing out in the rust belt now.
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Stay with me but this is where I have seen a potential segment for Republicans to tap into that has historically been against them: non-white voters.

A lot of non-white voters still vote Democrat due to fears around race. However, their values match the right in many ways. Trump is slowly chipping away at that but it is going to take time and work. The south still had a lot of those old dog white Democrats that kept voting Democrat even after their party left them (heck some of them are still around).
 
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