The problem with your map is;
The population centers and electoral votes are mostly the blue areas.
Yes, decidedly so. That’s why they are so for dumping the electoral college in favor of a popular vote. Nothing like the interests of a bunch urban denizens, coastal entitlement raiders, and resource depleting liberals in tight places trumping over the real richness and diversity of this country in all its geographical expanse.
When humans, animals - most anything - are lumped and confined together it is all the more easy for disease to spread rampantly. I maintain this is so for political ideology as well.