Anonymous
Post 12/15/2020 21:59     Subject: GOP Strongholds in MD
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Another map that shows how few Marylanders live in western Maryland and the Eastern Shore.


Yup. Likely more trump votes in the blue areas than the red ones.


I did the math earlier and Trump's votes in counties he lost were about 60% of his total vote in MD. He got more votes in each of Montgomery, Baltimore County, and Anne Arundel than he did in any of the counties he won.
Anonymous
Post 12/15/2020 19:35     Subject: GOP Strongholds in MD
Anonymous wrote:Another map that shows how few Marylanders live in western Maryland and the Eastern Shore.


Yup. Likely more trump votes in the blue areas than the red ones.
Anonymous
Post 12/15/2020 18:17     Subject: GOP Strongholds in MD
Another map that shows how few Marylanders live in western Maryland and the Eastern Shore.
Anonymous
Post 12/15/2020 13:22     Subject: GOP Strongholds in MD
Anonymous wrote:I know that people vote, not trees or poultry, but it's interesting how much of Maryland votes Republican. It's not something you'd necessarily know from the tenor of the posts on this forum.

https://twitter.com/adam_marton/status/1336702740324618241?s=20

Another good map of 2020 in Maryland:
Anonymous
Post 12/12/2020 08:30     Subject: GOP Strongholds in MD
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It must be tough for all the dems when they cross the Bay Bridge and enter enemy territory on their way to the nice Bay House or Beach enclave.


It must be odd for those who insist upon seeing everything in dichotomies. It must be even odder to hate and/ or fear what you don’t understand.



No kidding. I live in a red part of Maryland. People overall are pretty decent, and we don't sit and talk politics all day, or much at all actually. I don't assume the older white guy who made my sandwich yesterday is a vile racist just because he has a Trump sticker on his pickup truck. I've been going to his shop for a while now, and he's a decent guy in my experience. Same for the parents in my kids' classes. Sure my daughter's friend's father was out on a hunting trip two weeks ago because deer season started, which never happened when we lived in the DC area. Hunting is not my thing, but so what?


However, it is safe to assume that he does not consider the vile racism of others to be a deal-breaker.


This. And that he is in a cult
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2020 16:25     Subject: GOP Strongholds in MD
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Liberal concepts benefit densely-populated areas. Taxes that pay for transportation, good schools, responsive police/fire/ambulance.

Conservative concepts benefit sparsely-populated areas. Lower taxes because a transportation system isn't feasible in rural areas. People need cars, period. Also, better just assume your house will burn down before the fire department shows up. So why pay big taxes for that?

That's just how it is.


Cars are driven on roads, no? Which are paid for by...?


I think the idea is that it's OK to pay for roads, but not on public transportation.


That PP seems to believe that roads are free. Or maybe that cars fly, I don't know which.
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2020 16:17     Subject: GOP Strongholds in MD
Anonymous wrote:Liberal concepts benefit densely-populated areas. Taxes that pay for transportation, good schools, responsive police/fire/ambulance.

Conservative concepts benefit sparsely-populated areas. Lower taxes because a transportation system isn't feasible in rural areas. People need cars, period. Also, better just assume your house will burn down before the fire department shows up. So why pay big taxes for that?

That's just how it is.


The only wrench in the argument is SSI being a major employer and utilities being almost wholly subsidized by areas where running lines makes economic sense
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2020 16:14     Subject: GOP Strongholds in MD
Anonymous wrote:Liberal concepts benefit densely-populated areas. Taxes that pay for transportation, good schools, responsive police/fire/ambulance.

Conservative concepts benefit sparsely-populated areas. Lower taxes because a transportation system isn't feasible in rural areas. People need cars, period. Also, better just assume your house will burn down before the fire department shows up. So why pay big taxes for that?

That's just how it is.


There are more Trump voters (about 60% of them) in MD counties that went blue than in counties that went red.
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2020 15:54     Subject: GOP Strongholds in MD
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Liberal concepts benefit densely-populated areas. Taxes that pay for transportation, good schools, responsive police/fire/ambulance.

Conservative concepts benefit sparsely-populated areas. Lower taxes because a transportation system isn't feasible in rural areas. People need cars, period. Also, better just assume your house will burn down before the fire department shows up. So why pay big taxes for that?

That's just how it is.


Cars are driven on roads, no? Which are paid for by...?


I think the idea is that it's OK to pay for roads, but not on public transportation.
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2020 15:42     Subject: GOP Strongholds in MD
Anonymous wrote:Liberal concepts benefit densely-populated areas. Taxes that pay for transportation, good schools, responsive police/fire/ambulance.

Conservative concepts benefit sparsely-populated areas. Lower taxes because a transportation system isn't feasible in rural areas. People need cars, period. Also, better just assume your house will burn down before the fire department shows up. So why pay big taxes for that?

That's just how it is.


Cars are driven on roads, no? Which are paid for by...?
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2020 15:12     Subject: GOP Strongholds in MD
Liberal concepts benefit densely-populated areas. Taxes that pay for transportation, good schools, responsive police/fire/ambulance.

Conservative concepts benefit sparsely-populated areas. Lower taxes because a transportation system isn't feasible in rural areas. People need cars, period. Also, better just assume your house will burn down before the fire department shows up. So why pay big taxes for that?

That's just how it is.