Black population of Lexington County, SC: 15%
Black population of Placer County, CA: 2%
I have a physician friend who is from Iowa and he moved to South Carolina to a racially diverse small-sized city. He is shocked at how southern blacks do not take care of themselves. They wait until their leg needs to get amputated before coming in for medical care. Overweight, no exercise, poor diet. He advised that the difference between how poor whites in the Midwest take care of themselves is night and day compared to southern blacks. He was completely shocked by what he saw.
Poor southern whites are not dramatically better at that than poor southern blacks, either.
From the misleading headline and the snippet of the article posted, you’d think that Placer County was solidly democrat. In reality it’s a red county that just happens to be in California that went for Trump by a pretty significant margin!