Purple America Has All but Disappeared

From Committee of Seventy (https://www.seventy.org/):

Counties where 2016 presidential candidates won the two-party popular vote by more than 20 percentage points (FiveThirtyEight)

This FiveThirtyEight analysis puts our polarization right in your face: the only areas that aren’t colored in are the counties in which neither President Trump or Hillary Clinton carried the popular vote by more than 20 points. And since ‘92, “the number of extreme landslide counties — those decided by margins exceeding 50 percentage points — exploded from 93 to 1,196, or over a third of the nation’s counties.” These Business Insider maps rescale counties to reflect their populations, telling a more nuanced story from the one above. But one story all maps tell is that there are two political Americas moving farther apart. Bad for democracy.