In before everyone asks: Louisiana has open primaries, so no real incentive to change your party affiliation if it no longer matches your beliefs, and a long history of Democratic dominance in state government (as well as going for Clinton twice as recently as the ’90s)
Big_Size_2519 on
Fun Fact: AZ is a state that has one of the highest percentage of its republicans for democrats. Biden got 9%
Any-Plum-7478 on
Interesting data, thanks for sharing!
MissionAsparagus9609 on
A few aspects of the yank system puzzle me, but why do you declare affiliation when enrolling to vote?
TotalBlissey on
This doesn’t mean much. Massachusetts has a majority registered as independents, but Massachusetts went +33 points for Biden in 2020 and has a state government that’s over 4/5th democrats. Same with Colorado, it went for Biden by +14 points and has a state government that’s 3/4 democrats.
Also it doesn’t include a full half of the country’s population.
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Source with interactive map: https://ballotpedia.org/Partisan_affiliations_of_registered_voters
In before everyone asks: Louisiana has open primaries, so no real incentive to change your party affiliation if it no longer matches your beliefs, and a long history of Democratic dominance in state government (as well as going for Clinton twice as recently as the ’90s)
Fun Fact: AZ is a state that has one of the highest percentage of its republicans for democrats. Biden got 9%
Interesting data, thanks for sharing!
A few aspects of the yank system puzzle me, but why do you declare affiliation when enrolling to vote?
This doesn’t mean much. Massachusetts has a majority registered as independents, but Massachusetts went +33 points for Biden in 2020 and has a state government that’s over 4/5th democrats. Same with Colorado, it went for Biden by +14 points and has a state government that’s 3/4 democrats.
Also it doesn’t include a full half of the country’s population.