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The One Minute Geographer: The Great Plains — Race, Ethnicity and the Trump Vote, Part 2
We saw in earlier posts that the Magical Meridian, and the Great Plains in general, gave Donald Trump some of the highest percentages of his vote. In a previous post I looked at 7 counties in Texas that were among his 10 highest in the nation where he received between 92% and 97% of the vote.
No high-powered statistical analysis is needed to see the correlation between the many counties on the 100-degree meridian that have 80% or more non-Hispanic white population and cast 80% or more of their votes for Trump.
It’s interesting to look at the opposite situation: counties among the 54 in our strip that had a lower percentage of vote for Trump, including the 4 we saw in the last post that voted for Biden.
The map above and the chart below shows the 11 counties on the meridian that gave Trump less than 75% of their vote. All have significant percentages of either Native American or Hispanic/Latino population.
As I noted in my post The Heart of Trumpland, Texas is already a ‘minority majority’ state. About 45% of Texas’ population is non-Hispanic white…
