Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Tarrant County, Texas: Why Republican strategists lose sleep at night

  

Dallas-Fort Worth metro area

From a 33.7 percentage point GOP advantage in 1984 to a 0.2 percentage point Democratic advantage.  In a county where the biggest city, Fort Worth, is nicknamed "Cowtown".  Sayanora @TexasGOP.

Wikipedia 
3rd party votes:  28% in 1992, 7.5% in 1996. 5.1% in 2016
(Alabama segregationist George Wallace received 15.3% of the vote in 1968)

Trump received 63,820 more votes than he did in 2016, a 18% increase.   Biden received 123,175 more votes than Clinton did in 2016, an increase of 43%.

Trump's share of the vote decreased by 2.6 percentage points.  Biden increased Clinton's share of the vote by 6.2 percentage points. 

The GOP metro/suburban problem, graphed:  diverse population growth.  (Same source as line graph above.)

Demographically speaking.

% of population 25 and older with bachelor's degree:
  • 32.3% - Tarrant County
  • 29.9% - Texas
  • 32.1% - U.S.
% of population 65 and older:
  • 11.6% - Tarrant County
  • 12.9% - Texas
  • 16.5% - U.S.
% of population living in poverty:
  • 10.2% - Tarrant County
  • 13.6% - Texas
  • 10.5% - U.S. (they're joking, of course)

The GOP dumbing down of America is not working in Tarrant County.

Other GOP insomnia locations:

Indianpolis metro area:

Indiana.  Hamilton County.  (3/23/2021)
Indiana.  Hancock County.  (3/23/2021)
Indiana.  Hendricks County.  (3/23/2021)
Indiana.  Johnson County.  (3/23/2021)
Indiana.  Marion County.  (3/24/2021)

Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area
Minnesota.  Anoka County.  (3/22/2021)
Minnesota.  Carver County.  (3/21/2021)
Minnesota.  Dakota County.  (3/22/2021)
Minnesota.  Washington County.  (3/22/2021)

Kansas City metro area:
Missouri.  Clay County.  (3/22/2021)
Missouri.  Platte County.  (3/22/2021)

Dallas/Fort Worth metro area:
Texas.  Collin County.  (3/24/2021)
Texas.  Dallas County.  (3/24/2021)
Texas.  Denton County.  (3/24/2021)
Texas.  Ellis County.  (3/24/2021)
Texas.  Kaufman County.  (3/24/2021)

Milwaukee metro area
Wisconisn.  Ozaukee County. (3/23/2021) 
Wisconsin.  Waukesha County.  (3/23/2021)

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