Trump at NCAA’s

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1 hour ago, JimmySpeaks said:

Can’t you read?   In 1998 in the suburbs it was 47 blue 42 red. Up to 2017 it was 47 blue 45 red. 
For those two decades as a whole it has leaned blue.   

Yeah, except for 1999-2005 and 2010-2016, but other than that the whole time!

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1 minute ago, 1032004 said:

Yeah, except for 1999-2005 and 2010-2016, but other than that the whole time!

For the two decades yep. 

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2 minutes ago, JimmySpeaks said:

For the two decades yep. 

2 decades except for 14 of those 20 years, got it!

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So the last part of that shows what party leading in the suburbs?  The most current available?  
 

that would be BLUE. RIGHT? 

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20 hours ago, JimmySpeaks said:

So the last part of that shows what party leading in the suburbs?  The most current available?  
 

that would be BLUE. RIGHT? 

Actually your source has more data available, with the most recent (2023) leaning red:

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/partisanship-in-rural-suburban-and-urban-communities/

But according to that it’s pretty even, although I’d still bet it’s skewed by a few bigger metros where the suburbs do lean blue, but many don’t.

Also to your earlier point about farmers or whatever, there is a middle ground between suburban and rural, towns that are like an hour or so from bigger cities, and the further from the city you get the more red they generally lean.  If I had to guess I’d bet many top wrestlers are from exurban areas like that.  For example looking at this year’s champs based on the hometown listed on their roster, I would probably only count one as being from a rural area.

Robinson: Chicago (urban)

Byrd: Cincinnati (urban/maybe suburban)

Mendez: Crown Point, IN (suburban/maybe exurban depending on your definition)

Lovett: Post Falls, ID (suburban/maybe exurban depending on your definition)

Taylor: Millard, NE (suburban)

Mesenbrink: Hartland, WI (suburban)

Hamiti: Joliet, IL (exurban)

Starocci: Erie, PA (urban)

Buchanan: Loyal, WI (rural)

Hendrickson: Newton, KS (exurban)

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1 hour ago, 1032004 said:

Actually your source has more data available, with the most recent (2023) leaning red:

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/partisanship-in-rural-suburban-and-urban-communities/

But according to that it’s pretty even, although I’d still bet it’s skewed by a few bigger metros where the suburbs do lean blue, but many don’t.

Also to your earlier point about farmers or whatever, there is a middle ground between suburban and rural, towns that are like an hour or so from bigger cities, and the further from the city you get the more red they generally lean.  If I had to guess I’d bet many top wrestlers are from exurban areas like that.  For example looking at this year’s champs based on the hometown listed on their roster, I would probably only count one as being from a rural area.

Robinson: Chicago (urban)

Byrd: Cincinnati (urban/maybe suburban)

Mendez: Crown Point, IN (suburban/maybe exurban depending on your definition)

Lovett: Post Falls, ID (suburban/maybe exurban depending on your definition)

Taylor: Millard, NE (suburban)

Mesenbrink: Hartland, WI (suburban)

Hamiti: Joliet, IL (exurban)

Starocci: Erie, PA (urban)

Buchanan: Loyal, WI (rural)

Hendrickson: Newton, KS (exurban)

Ummmmm did you read all my comments ??  I already stated rural is red 

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1 hour ago, 1032004 said:

Actually your source has more data available, with the most recent (2023) leaning red:

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/partisanship-in-rural-suburban-and-urban-communities/

But according to that it’s pretty even, although I’d still bet it’s skewed by a few bigger metros where the suburbs do lean blue, but many don’t.

Also to your earlier point about farmers or whatever, there is a middle ground between suburban and rural, towns that are like an hour or so from bigger cities, and the further from the city you get the more red they generally lean.  If I had to guess I’d bet many top wrestlers are from exurban areas like that.  For example looking at this year’s champs based on the hometown listed on their roster, I would probably only count one as being from a rural area.

Robinson: Chicago (urban)

Byrd: Cincinnati (urban/maybe suburban)

Mendez: Crown Point, IN (suburban/maybe exurban depending on your definition)

Lovett: Post Falls, ID (suburban/maybe exurban depending on your definition)

Taylor: Millard, NE (suburban)

Mesenbrink: Hartland, WI (suburban)

Hamiti: Joliet, IL (exurban)

Starocci: Erie, PA (urban)

Buchanan: Loyal, WI (rural)

Hendrickson: Newton, KS (exurban)

When you jump in on a conversation you may want to go back and read the entire thing before thinking you have an ah ha moment 

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28 minutes ago, JimmySpeaks said:

Ummmmm did you read all my comments ??  I already stated rural is red 

I didn’t dispute that rural was red, I was saying there was a middle ground between rural and suburban.  And also that “rural America” hasn’t really produced all that many top wrestlers recently.

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1 minute ago, 1032004 said:

I didn’t dispute that rural was red, I was saying there was a middle ground between rural and suburban.  And also that “rural America” hasn’t really produced all that many top wrestlers recently.

Again. Go back and read the conversation you jumped in on.  From the beginning 

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22 minutes ago, JimmySpeaks said:

Again. Go back and read the conversation you jumped in on.  From the beginning 

Uh, I was part of it from the beginning 

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1 minute ago, 1032004 said:

Uh, I was part of it from the beginning 

I’m sorry you don’t understand the conversation then.