Timeline for What is this line of counties voting for the Democratic party in the 2016 elections?
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| Nov 10, 2016 at 7:41 | comment | added | Lostinfrance | @O.M.Y., my answer was intended as a reply to isanae's comment. I was arguing that, as a general point, geographical features can explain (or partially explain) present day voting patterns. People who know more than I do (I'm not American) about the history of those areas have suggested explanations related to the distribution of demographic groups that seem very plausible answers to isanae's original comment. My argument was that the way these population distributions originally came about had a lot to do with geography. | |
| Nov 9, 2016 at 21:40 | comment | added | O.M.Y. | Lostinfrance -- Farmers by and large are Trump supporters. motherjones.com/environment/2016/10/trump-farmers | |
| Nov 9, 2016 at 20:49 | comment | added | Lostinfrance | @isanae, it might explain it. To take an obvious possibility, the descendants of people who settled on good agricultural land are likely to include a high proportion of farmers even now. Farmers have different political interests to city people and are likely to vote differently, on average.Or it might be some other chain of events but still one that was ultimately caused by geography. | |
| Nov 9, 2016 at 18:05 | comment | added | isanae | Geographical features may have dictated where people are today, but it wouldn't explain why they would vote the same way. | |
| Nov 9, 2016 at 10:28 | history | answered | Lostinfrance | CC BY-SA 3.0 |