“Imagine if the Bolsheviks controlled the East Coast and West Coast, and patriots controlled all of North America in between the coasts. Not too difficult to imagine, is it?”
When I read that, I thought EXACTLY the same. It is scary...and true.
I grew up in Pennsylvania, lived in Upstate New York, visited California and currently live in New Jersey. I can say with without a shadow of a doubt that these states are much more conservative than people believe when urban, academic, state capitals and illegal alien areas are taken out of the equation. The conservative to moderate areas are predominantly the producers,land with resources and military bases. A good graphic is the 2016 election map broken down by counties.