Is the Democratic Party even losing ground in their hardcore strongholds?
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The graph to the right was posted today at a aggregate conservative website that I frequently check for news. The post asked with puzzlement, “What is going on in Colorado and Utah?”, both of which appear to be moving leftward to support the Democratic Party.
I however saw something far more significant in the voting trends nationwide, especially in almost all hardcore Democratic Party strongholds, such as California, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, and all of New England. I hope you notice it too.
In all these very hardcore blue states, where violence, censorship, and blacklisting against conservatives is routine and pervasive (suggesting leftwing politics dominate), the voting trends have moved to the right since 2020. The trends in both California and Massachusetts are especially stunning, with practically every single county, even in urban areas, shifting to the right. Only one county in these states, in California, showed any leftward trend, but that county shifted less than 1%.
In other words, the left’s violence, censorship, and blacklisting has been doing exactly the opposite of its intended goals. Leftists do this to intimidate and make others agree with them. Instead, their bullying is turning off ordinary people, and causing their votes to shift rightward.
This is merely one data point. Moreover, I was unable to locate the source for the map, so its data should be viewed with some skepticism. Nonetheless, this data fits with other trends, including the election victory of Trump whereby he won all of the so-called battleground states.
It seems ordinary low-information voters nationwide (except in Utah and Colorado) are beginning to notice the bankruptcy of the Democratic Party, and respond at the voting booth appropriately.
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The graph to the right was posted today at a aggregate conservative website that I frequently check for news. The post asked with puzzlement, “What is going on in Colorado and Utah?”, both of which appear to be moving leftward to support the Democratic Party.
I however saw something far more significant in the voting trends nationwide, especially in almost all hardcore Democratic Party strongholds, such as California, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, and all of New England. I hope you notice it too.
In all these very hardcore blue states, where violence, censorship, and blacklisting against conservatives is routine and pervasive (suggesting leftwing politics dominate), the voting trends have moved to the right since 2020. The trends in both California and Massachusetts are especially stunning, with practically every single county, even in urban areas, shifting to the right. Only one county in these states, in California, showed any leftward trend, but that county shifted less than 1%.
In other words, the left’s violence, censorship, and blacklisting has been doing exactly the opposite of its intended goals. Leftists do this to intimidate and make others agree with them. Instead, their bullying is turning off ordinary people, and causing their votes to shift rightward.
This is merely one data point. Moreover, I was unable to locate the source for the map, so its data should be viewed with some skepticism. Nonetheless, this data fits with other trends, including the election victory of Trump whereby he won all of the so-called battleground states.
It seems ordinary low-information voters nationwide (except in Utah and Colorado) are beginning to notice the bankruptcy of the Democratic Party, and respond at the voting booth appropriately.
Readers!
My annual February birthday fund-raising drive for Behind the Black is now over. Thank you to everyone who donated or subscribed. While not a record-setter, the donations were more than sufficient and slightly above average.
As I have said many times before, I can’t express what it means to me to get such support, especially as no one is required to pay anything to read my work. Thank you all again!
For those readers who like my work here at Behind the Black and haven't contributed so far, please consider donating or subscribing. My analysis of space, politics, and culture, taken from the perspective of an historian, is almost always on the money and ahead of the game. For example, in 2020 I correctly predicted that the COVID panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Every one of those 2020 conclusions has turned out right.
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Mark Levin had Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on his show last night. DeSantis spoke of the leftward turn the Florida House has taken of late.
Nothing should be taken for granted. The problem is that the Left has had a stranglehold on the media and academia for so long that even newly converted “conservative strongholds” like Florida (which had been purple) remain vulnerable either to Democrats, or to the Republicans-In-Name-Only moderates that tend to capitulate to them.
Been waiting for the rational electorate (of which I suspect is by far the majority) to finally say enough.. it’s been slowly happening, but needs to cascade.. maybe we’re getting close.
Michigan, for one, is looking quite good!
(I’ve only ever needed Trump to 1) beat HRC, and 2) Keep my State in play! Everything else is gravy. Promises made, promises kept!)
The Detroit, Mi. Metroplex has 3 large Counties that dominate the State, and those historically always went democrat.
However, I’m in one of the few light blue zones in existence in Michigan. Jerrymandered quite a bit but tightened up substantially in 2024.
Michigan, for one, is looking quite good!
(I’ve only ever needed Trump to 1) beat HRC, and 2) Keep my State in play! Everything else is gravy. Promises made, promises kept!)
The Detroit, Mi. Metroplex has 3 large Counties that dominate the State, and those historically always went democrat.
However, I’m in one of the few light blue zones in existence in Michigan. Jerrymandered quite a bit but tightened up substantially in 2024.
I’d love to see this chart extended back to 2016 or 2012. 2020 was an outlier year in many respects, so mapping change from that year is not terribly useful.
“2020 was an outlier year in many respects…”
You misspelled “outright lie”.
wayne,
The three darkest blue Michigan counties on that map are Leelanau, Grand Traverse and Ottawa. I have no idea why they bucked the trend of most of the rest of the state. None are exactly urban powerhouses. The biggest city in Leelanau and Grand Traverse counties is the shared Traverse City which had fewer than 16,000 residents as of 2020. The biggest city in Ottawa county seems to be Holland with less than 36,000. None of these counties hosts a major college or university. Very mysterious.
Though born and raised in the U.P., I recently notched a half-century as a Californian so my familiarity with MI politics has pretty much gone by attrition. As you still live there, perhaps you have a clue as to why these outlier counties are outliers. It sure beats me.
I think it has to do with timing.
What usually happens, is that legacy media will tell a howler –then print a retraction two weeks later just before the classifieds.
Shilling for Biden–ignoring the sundowning…just before seeing him freeze up during the debate—that went out live.
That and in the era of the Internet–there are new rules….a story two days old might as well have been during the Pre-Cambrian.
That’s my take, anyway.
The map of Utah is misleading, those giant counties that are red? Have only a few thousand residents. Mostly desert with no power or infrastructure. We have a huge problem with mail in ballots, the far exceed the registered voters. For most of my life, this was the reddest state in the entire nation.
Also the party’s say all the information is open to the public, 40% is kept hidden. Utah government won’t release it.
We have a governor who was shunned by his own party so to keep his job, he had to do a write in campaign to get on the ballot. (just like mitt Romney who came in third, whom was allowed on the ballot because of the signature campaign that was later deemed illegal) Mitt Romney‘s republican replacement from Utah in the legislature was once the head of the Democrat party here.
The signatures for the governor were forged, entire pages was done in the same handwriting… 12 people have been sent to prison. why has nothing been done? The person counting the votes became the governors “lieutenant governor”
The man picked by the Republican Party to run for governor was not allowed on the ballot, and they found others who had the same name placed on the ballot to confuse people, because you had to physically write his name on the ballot.
Here’s his appeal to President Trump and the Doge team to right the wrong of the recent election. (some of the votes went negative as they were counting them just like in trumps second term that failed… how does the vote count go backwards?) I don’t know if it still works.
https://x.com/phil_lyman/status/1894933671704146009
Jeff Wright,
If all of that usual nonsense still worked – which it no longer generally seems to, given that Trump actually got elected – it is still a generic explanation for what is a very non-generic result. If these particular three counties in Michigan are still uniquely vulnerable to disinformation tactics that have largely ceased to work elsewhere, then why is that so? I’d like to have some idea and I don’t.
Heck, there might even be two separate explanations as there is quite a geographic distance between the adjacent Leelanau-Grand Traverse pair and Ottawa, which is well to the south. They are in separate local media markets to cite one possibly relevant distinction. T’is still a puzzlement.
This is a little deceptive.
The map is basically showing Trumps popularity. It also shows the centers of the left coming out in higher numbers in those areas.
As it always happens after a presidential election the leftist media will have 3 more years to smear the right. Which tends to drift the moderates away from the right.
But the new media, the internet, has a good chance of battling back against the left. It worked for the last election so it could work again. We just need to keep telling the truth. The truth destroys the left. Logic ruins their lives.
I would like to see this very same map after the midterm elections.