Retiring Guy's Digest: Lehigh County, Pennsylvania: Why the GOP believes that voter suppression is the only path to survival

Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Lehigh County, Pennsylvania: Why the GOP believes that voter suppression is the only path to survival

Lehigh County went from a 20 percentage point GOP advantage in 1984 to a 7.6 percentage point Democratic advantage in 2020.

Wikipedia

3rd party votes: 22.2% in 1992, 11.7% in 1996, 4.7% in 2016

(Alabama segregationist George Wallace

received 4.3% of the vote in 1968)

Trump received 10,728 more votes than he did in 2016, a 15% increase. Biden received 17,174 more votes than Clinton in 2016, an increase of 21%.

Trump's share of the vote decreased by 0.2 percentage points. Biden increased Clinton's share of the vote by 3.1 percentage points.

New York Times, 5/26/2021

But the warehouses are being built at such a dizzying pace that many residents worry the area’s landscape, quality of life and long-term economic well-being are at risk. E-commerce is fueling job growth, but the work is physically taxing, does not pay as well as manufacturing and could eventually be phased out by automation. Yet the warehouses are leaving a permanent mark. There are proposals to widen local roads to accommodate the thousands of additional trucks ferrying goods from the hulking structures.

Demographically speaking.

US Census Bureau QuickFacts

% of population 25 and older with bachelor's degree:

29.9% - Lehigh County
31.4% - Pennsylvania
32.1% - U.S.

% of population 65 and older:

17.1% - Lehigh County
18.7% - Pennsylvania
16.5% - U.S.

% of population living in poverty:

11.5% - Lehigh County
12.0% - Pennsylvania
10.5% - U.S. (they're joking, of course)

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

Where the GOP believes that voter suppression is the only path to survival

Denver metro area:

Colorado. Adams County. (3/25/2021)

Colorado. Arapahoe County. (3/25/2021)

Colorado. Denver County. (3/25/2021)
Colorado. Douglas County. (3/25/2021)

Colorado. Jefferson County. (3/25/2021)

Atlanta metro area:

Georgia. Clayton County. (3/26/2021)

Georgia. Cobb County. (3/26/2021)

Georgia. DeKalb County. (3/26/2021)

Georgia. Douglas County. (3/27/2021)

Georgia. Fayette County. (3/27/2021)

Georgia. Forsyth County. (3/26/2021)

Georgia. Gwinnett County. (3/26/2021)

Georgia. Henry County. (3/26/2021)

Georgia Rockdale County. (3/26/2021)

Boise metro area:

Idaho. Ada County. (5/29/2021)

Chicago metro area:

Illinois. DeKalb County. (3/29/2021)

Illinois. DuPage County. (3/30/2021)

Illinois. Kane County. (3/30/2021)

Illinois. Kendall County. (3/30/2021)

Illinois. Lake County. (3/29/2021)

Illinois. McHenry County. (3/29/2021)

Illinois. Will County. (3/30/2021)

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)

Baltimore/Washington D.C. metro area