Divisions are also fractal. The outskirts of large cities are more conservative than the dense downtown. The center of a small town is more progressive than its outer streets, even in towns as small as a couple thousand people. This isn't the American Civil War of state vs state, it's (relatively) high density vs (relatively) low density.

If we have a wide outbreak of violence it will probably look closer to Rwanda than the organized Union vs Confederacy fighting.

It couldn’t be Rwanda anyway - no group has enough of a majority. Rwanda had 84%/15%

Last I checked New York had fusion voting. Chicago had fusion voting until the 1990s. California had fusion voting as late as the 1940s - not sure when it ended.

So it’s not as simple as “winner takes all.”

NB: fusion voting is where candidates are endorsed by multiple parties. So you can be a Democrat and a Libertarian.

> So it’s not as simple as “winner takes all.”

Yes it is. You just misunderstood what I meant.

from https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/allocation

> All States, except for Maine and Nebraska have a winner-take-all policy where the State looks only at the overall winner of the state-wide popular vote. Maine and Nebraska, however, appoint individual electors based on the winner of the popular vote for each Congressional district and then 2 electors based on the winner of the overall state-wide popular vote.

That is only for presidential elections. I assume the original comment covered elections in general. Washington state, for example, has single primaries (top two advance to general election regardless of party) rather than a partisan primary for every election except presidential.

> for a blue state

Would you just drop the stereotype that Democrats care about black people any more than Republicans do? It's staring you in the face, you admit it and somehow cling to this lie.

what the hell? did you reply to the wrong person?

Psyops

I must've. Ran into some "we are unable to process your request" while trying to reply earlier.