The blue areas out voted the red areas @berdie Every election Cooke County over rules the rest of Illinois. Las Vegas does the same for Nevada. And on it goes.
I don't doubt for a minute the veracity of your words
@Bigun or the graph. The urban areas out-populate and out vote the rest of the residents on a state by basis. It would be far too time consuming to add up the population of
the entire country divided by red/blue, liberal/conservative to see what those numbers would be. I know that doesn't have anything to do with voting. But I was trying to say, inelegantly, that a large portion of people aren't so stupid to believe the pablum being peddled. Even a large number of Dems don't believe men can have babies, etc. If you take out the number of people that vote Dem because they always have and the ones that vote Dem because $it benefits$ them in some way, who probably don't believe all that is being presented, the number of semi intelligent people might be even higher.
Of course, they have and have been dumbing down the young people to the point I don't know that this will last.