• tomalley8342@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Maybe they voted against the incumbent

    I wouldn’t be so confident about assigning such motivation.

      • wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        2 hours ago

        So then the trend is getting reder with time then? I don’t see your point.

        It’s not saying 100% of people always vote red. But the majority have for a VERY long time.

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            42 minutes ago

            But the point, for this population and this meme, is that they have consistently voting in the same people and the results they have received are similarly consistent, and they keep voting that way.

            Yes broadly there’s been a “vote out the incumbent”, but this illustrates why that’s misguided, as it illustrates the different results of two states with consistent policies for each party.

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      5 hours ago

      In that one case, they’re a pretty consistent electorate. The general sentiment across America and around the globe since the post-pandemic inflation crisis began has been anti incumbent, which is why we see a lot of changed governments and populist uprisings now.