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The map appears to be delineated at the county level. My question is what exactly does the blue represent? Is the map showing which counties broke D v. R in the 2020 presidential election or is it representative of voter registration? Or something else? CA, AZ, WA, HI, NM, VT, MA, IL, RI, NH look correct. Maybe OR, NV, CT, NJ, GA, UT, FL and TX. But something looks off, especially in SD and MT (too much rural blue), CO (Denver red and Colorado Springs blue), and MS and SC (way too much blue).

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

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

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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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