Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Greetings from red and well-educated Sarpy County, Nebraska: Not totally into this Trump's America thing


Source:  Wikipedia

Located within the Omaha-Council Bluff NE-IA MSA

Source:  U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts

% of population 25 and older with bachelor's degree:
  • 39.5% - Boone County
  • 30.6% - Indiana
  • 30.9% - U.S.

% of population 65 and older:
  • 11.3% - Sarpy County
  • 15.4% - Nebraska
  • 15.6% - U.S.

Underperforming Trump's share of the GOP votes is 4.5 percentage points smaller than Romney's.

Source:  Wikipedia
3rd party votes: 23.2% in 1992; 10.2% in 1996; 9.2% in 2016
(17.0% for George Wallace in 1968)

Other "Red but not totally into this Trump's America thing" posts:
Colorado.  Jefferson County.  (3/9/2019)
Florida.  Duval County.  (3/14/2019)
Georgia.  Cherokee County.  (3/10/2019)
Georgia.  Fayette County.  (3/10/2019)
Georgia.  Forsyth County.  (3/10/2019)
Indiana.  Boone County.  (3/16/2019)
Indiana.  Hamilton County.  (3/15/2019)
Kansas.  Johnson County.  (3/9/2019)
Minnesota.  Carver County.  (3/9/2019)
Ohio.  Delaware County  (3/8/2019)
Wisconsin.  Ozaukee County.  (3/8/2019)

Other related series:

Scott Walker's buddies the Koch Brothers want to take us back to the good ol' days of smoke-filled rooms


Is Scotty on board with repealed the 17th Amendment?


More info on the 17th Amendment found at the Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute.


ALEC and Koch Brothers Want to Gerrymander the Senate.  (Bill Moyers, 7/18/2017)


Related posts:
Lap dog Scott Walker takes on another Koch Brothers priority.  (3/25/2019)
Scott Walker on board with the National Republican Redistricting Trust to preserve North Carolina's gerrymandered districts.  (3/24/2019)
GET ME REWRITE: Scott Walker joins group that fought to preserve gerrymandered congressional districts in Pennsylvania.  (3/22/2019)
Broken record: The WIGOP gerrymander messaging of power-mad Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.  (12/2/2018)
In a close vote, male-dominated Columbia County Board of Supervisors endorses gerrymandering of state and congressional legislative districts.  (1/22/2018)
Wisconsin redistricting: Judges saw evidence, reached obvious conclusion, part 1.  (1/28/2017)
Wisconsin redistricting: Judges saw evidence, reached obvious conclusion, part 2.  (1/28/2017)
Wisconsin redistricting: Judges saw evidence, reached obvious conclusion, part 3.  (1/28/2017)


Welcome to Donald Trump's literally toxic presidency


Photo credit:  Wikimedia Commons

Paraphrased from Interior Nominee Intervened to Block Report on Endangered Species. (The New York Times, 3/26/2019)

Related reading:
The Real-Life Effects of Trump’s Environmental Rollbacks: 5 Takeaways From Our Investigation.  (The New York Times, 12/26/2018)

  1. Trump has quickly undercut Obama's legacy.
  2. Environmental impacts span the country.
  3. The rollbacks touch air, water, chemicals, andn climate.
  4. The decline of coal has not been stopped.
  5. Progress is slowing -- but there's still progress.