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Wow, WV and OK. Not one county went Blue.

AmericanKulak says

Wow, WV and OK. Not one county went Blue.

You can really see the difference in California between the far-left extremists on the coast and the moderates inland.

How much did lockdown and mRNA regret drive voters toward Trump?

The hard-blue states with the toughest lockdowns and vaccine mandates had by far the biggest shifts; a reader email suggests one reason the link may not be coincidental.

This amazing chart ranks states by how heavily their voters shifted toward Trump from 2020 to 2024:



Overall, Trump picked up about 6-7 points in the national popular vote. He trained by 4.5 percentage points in 2020 and will win by 2 or so this time.

But, as this chart shows definitively, blue state voters drove the shift.

Six of the top seven moves to Trump occurred in hard-left states, led by California, the hardest of all. (Florida, the only exception, has gained hundreds of thousands of blue-state refugees since 2020, helping drive its shift.)

And after Mississippi come three more blue states. Except for Mississippi and Florida, the list pretty much captures the states with the hardest Covid lockdown and vaccine mandates and the highest mRNA jab rates.

2. Unlike Europeans, Americans have not accepted managed decline. They don't have Net Zero here, they believe in producing their own energy and making it as cheap as possible because they know that their prosperity depends on it.

Net zero is resigning from life and prosperity. It is a fleeting illusion of having energy, until it breaks. Then everyone depending on that source is left without. After a disaster, if your fuel or power source is destroyed. All everyone needs is a resupply of fuel.