A bit more on AZ...Yuma itself, now that I put my glasses on actually seems to have made it into the red on that map. So I gotta modify my statement. The blue to the east is just open desert with scattered one horse towns until you get to Phoenix, so it’s worse still.
And Yuma is an agricultural town with lots of illegals. And it STILL went red.
The northers and NM areas are still as I said though. and the whole thing is sparely populated. lots of 2 hour drives with good views of cactus. And no people.
Also, the far southwest of Cali is the same basic thing. you have Blyte, Needles and not much else till you hit Barstow or Cochella Valley/Salton Sea. It’s big and empty for the most part.
Oops/ FAR SOUTH EAST of cali. Sorry about that.