Nov 11, 2021

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The One Minute Geographer: The Great Plains — Race, Ethnicity and the Trump Vote, Part 2

Base map from twelvemilecircle.com. State and county names added by the author.

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.

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