Obscene Urban-Rural Power Disparities Persist in the States
(The gap between normal people and those in sequestering themselves to those Feral-Human Quarantine Zones is growing exponentially more obvious - DD)
The results of the 2024 elections continue to generate lots of important news stories, but one that has not gotten any headlines thus far really ought to be glaring at us from above the fold: the ridiculous disparities in political power between urban and rural counties (parishes for those in Louisiana).
The attention of most people has understandably been focused primarily on the federal presidential race, so we will begin our analysis of the power disparities there.
Donald Trump won both Texas and Wisconsin – the first by a fairly wide margin of the popular vote and the second by a very narrow margin. But if we look more closely, Trump’s victory was a great deal larger than it appears in both States (all data below comes from NBC News’s 2024 election pages).
In Texas, he won with 56.2% to Kamala Harris’s 42.4% of the popular vote. Yet, Harris won only 12 counties to Trump’s 242 – an astounding difference that is not reflected at all in the popular vote. Trump’s victory in the county totals comes to 95.3% to Harris’s 4.7%. Such differences should be taken into account in State-wide elections (we will enlarge upon that below).
In Wisconsin, Trump squeaked by Harris in the popular vote, 49.6% vs 48.8%. But he trounced her in…