“The infection I’m concerned is COMMUNISM...keep that locked up in the cities and blue counties.”
I don’t think it’s the individual states that are the problem, but the cities within those states. Even within red states. Cut them off, isolate them, let them burn down. For the most part, they do nothing for the rest of the state other than make a mess of things.
Anyway, that’s my two cents.
You’re right...Look at Tennessee, for example...get rid of Memphis and Nashville, and it would be hard to find a redder state.