sc94597 on 18 January 2018
| palou said:
I also always found that separating regions geographically made little to no sense, as it isn't necessarily the most distinctive separator among demographics (ESPECIALLY with the avenue of globalizing technologies, such as the internet.)
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In the United States it is.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/rural-america/?utm_term=.7fcbbccdc26b
Whether a county is urban or rural is a very good predictor of whether or not it is Democratic or Republican. This is different from when the divide was more region-based (Northeast vs. Southeast vs. Midwest vs. West Coast vs. Southwest.) All of the other predictors you mentioned aren't as cleanly predictive as population density.
