Arizona, South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi look scary with all the blue within their borders. I guess Arizona especially.
The blue sections in AZ shouldn’t disturb you too much. For the most part those are Indian reservations. Vast tracts of land with very few people living there. The dark blue section in the north includes Flagstaff and the one in the south includes Phoenix and Tucson so they have the city-lib vote adding to the Indian vote.
The blue band in AL includes Montgomery, Selma.and West AL.....large rural black population....not much to worry about. AL is comfortably Red.
“Arizona, South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi look scary with all the blue within their borders. I guess Arizona especially.”
Thomas Chittum wrote about such things in his prescient book, “Civil War II”...