More Californians voted for Trump than Texans, and that is especially true in their wine growing regions (Sorry to Sonoma and Napa, though). - ThreadSky

clond.bsky.social • 1 day ago

More Californians voted for Trump than Texans, and that is especially true in their wine growing regions (Sorry to Sonoma and Napa, though).

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beautifulwarrior.bsky.social•1 day ago

There's way more people in the blue areas than the red.
California is democratic

clond.bsky.social•23 hours ago

These maps always hide nuance, but the numbers don't lie. Over 6M Californians voted for Trump (over 9M for Harris). Yes, obviously the Democrats win state-wide races, but California (like all US states, probably) is way more purple than it is portrayed.

humanitariangal.bsky.social•1 day ago

The people that rely on migrant workers. Insane. FAFO

rachelkristine47.bsky.social•1 day ago

Omg! No wonder they included Cali wines! 🤣😂

binki666.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s not just southern Cali Fresno has right wing wineries too. Devin nunes was trumps lap dog. He has winery too

chaucersrevenge.bsky.social•1 day ago

The map is deceiving. Dirt doesn’t vote. There are more people in L.A. county alone than the entire middle of the country combined. (Dirt doesn’t vote there either, but I digress…)
The vast majority of the population is on the coast. The rest of the state is sparsely populated comparatively speaking

clond.bsky.social•23 hours ago

These maps are always deceiving, but the numbers don't lie. Over 6M Californians voted for Trump (over 9M for Harris). Yes, obviously the Democrats win state-wide races, but California (like all US states, probably) is way more purple than it is portrayed.

twoo60.bsky.social•1 day ago

Probs out-of-towners.

jeggy77.bsky.social•1 day ago

Okay! I’ll be voting for no -California wines from here on out!!

truthski.bsky.social•1 day ago

Because Napa and Sonoma are really “farmland”, along with a lot of the red in this country. Unfortunately they wanted simpler times but instead are getting a messy, messy America.

clond.bsky.social•1 day ago

From what I can tell, Sonoma actually appears to be the bluest county in California, and Napa is not far behind (that's why I was explicitly excluding them).

It's the inland wine growing regions that appear to be California Trump country (he got over 6M votes in the state, it's not a small number).

jdr1992.bsky.social•1 day ago

Outside of Amador and Lodi, most inland California wine is underwhelming anyway. I live here, and the climate is too warm to make wine of any good quality. The summers are too hot and the fruit gets too ripe to maintain acidity or character. It’s only useful for bulk wine like Gallo.

jdr1992.bsky.social•1 day ago

The good wine almost all comes from coastal counties that vote Democratic. But that doesn’t account for which winery owners support the Tangerine Zitblister. The people living in the Sonoma, Russian River, Napa, and Paso Robles wine areas don’t always vote the same way as the industry’s investors.

datas77.bsky.social•1 day ago

Rich assholes in Cali think FAFO doesn’t apply to them

its-its.bsky.social•1 day ago

The Californians that voted for Trump are fucking idiots, like Trump. They have everything to lose, like their labor force and export markets. The map you need is the one that shows the population density of these idiotic areas. SoCal = dense – the rest, rural, not densely populated.

its-its.bsky.social•1 day ago

Here's one that's a little more helpful. Our central valley is like a little Idaho. If there's a KKK or Neo-Nazi summer camp, look there. Oroville used to be that place 30 years ago.

http://www.geocurrents.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/California-Population-Density-Map-1.png

its-its.bsky.social•1 day ago

The county in the upper right corner, Modoc has 8,500 idiots.
https://www.california-demographics.com/counties_by_population

sisu4democracy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Mariposa, Madera, Oakhurst, Modesto, they are 😵‍💫

its-its.bsky.social•1 day ago

I know. I bet the voter turnout was very low there, too. I didn't check though.

sisu4democracy.bsky.social•1 day ago

There is someone who runs a FB group in Oakhurst where he has advocated for Central Valley agriculture. He is suspiciously quiet these days about ag!

its-its.bsky.social•1 day ago

My father was a farmer and taught Ag Econ at Cal Poly. These Republicans are all the same. Trump's going to hurt people, not me. Um, right. What dummies.

bucs137.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is what they voted for.

sarahcberger.bsky.social•1 day ago

Super important! People talk about targeting red states but the divide is not red vs blue state it’s rural vs urban. Plenty of Trump signs in rural New England.

metsgirl84.bsky.social•1 day ago

Very true, anyone who thinks NY state is solid blue, has never been outside the NYC metro area or Buffalo/Rochester area. They still had a chapter of the Klan in Binghamton when I lived in Upstate 25 years ago. Most of my family in Central NY are MAGA and voted for Elise Stafanik.

jdr1992.bsky.social•1 day ago

Even in a blue county, the normal people can vote Democratic but the investor class will still vote Republican. The Silicon Valley is the perfect example of that; Peter Thiel, Zuckerberg, Vance, and Musk are all-in on making Curtis Yarvin the father of the new US regime.

saraswati2301.bsky.social•1 day ago

Disappointing !

michelleabeyta.bsky.social•1 day ago

More Californians voted for Trump than Texans?

clond.bsky.social•1 day ago

Shoot, that's what I get for not double-checking my sources. Looks like it was less, though not by much (6.4M Texans vs. 6.1M Californians).

Hard to see the distributions in electoral maps that don't account for population density.

ferengifreak.bsky.social•1 day ago

Also, about 15.8 mil people voted in California compared to about 11.4 mil in Texas. (NBC Poll results)

twoo60.bsky.social•1 day ago

Aren’t there 40mil people in California? 15.8 voters is shameful.

ferengifreak.bsky.social•19 hours ago

There were 30.5 million people who were of voting age.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/03/29/2024-06666/estimates-of-the-voting-age-population-for-2023

twoo60.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Yes. Sorry. Didn’t think of voting age. Still, only half voted.

jarbridge.bsky.social•1 day ago

Land doesn't vote. Blue cities have higher populations than entire red states.

clond.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Yet still, statewide over 6M Californians voted for Trump (vs. 9M for Harris). Cities might have more people, but some of those people also vote for MAGA.