Red State holdouts
This kind of language is exactly why the whole “Red State, Blue State” misnomer has been the most effective tool of the status quo.
Joe Biden got 41% of the vote in the Kansas 2020 national election. Trump got 55%. A 14% difference is hardly insurmountable. Sure, convincing enough disaffected left-leaners that their vote matters might take more than one election, but when you stop the conversation before it can even start by writing-off entire states as “strongholds” you only ensure that the millions of people trapped in those Republican-ran shitholes will never see how close they actually are to actual change.
I know sick of it. Left leaning stuck Oklahoma.
Seriously. This goes for county level too. Lots of people in the county I grew up in seem to think it is deeply red and the only reason Washington goes blue is because King County overwhelmingly votes blue. Trump got 56% of the vote in that deep red county I grew up in which has a whopping 35k people. If you are in a group of people there, a good chunk of them vote blue. And that is not just because of Trump considering it was the same for the governor race. Places are a lot closer than many think.
Which is why a small shift in the number of disaffected voters can be disastrous. You don’t really want 20% of your voting base putting down “uncommitted” in the primary. The number of voters Biden would potentially lose by killing funding for Israel are in areas he is almost certainly going to win by a landslide.
Grew up half in Kansas and got out at 21. I go back to visit family. I was surprised to see a dispensary a few years back. But beyond that, Kansas remains lost. You wouldn’t believe how many churches (and mega churches) there are. It’s fucking offensive how grand and opulent they are.
