Trump won by a landslide in most rural areas; see county-level data - Entrepreneur Generations

Landslide counties in 2020 presidential election. Daily Yonder map;
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Much has been made of President-elect Joe Biden's narrow wins in battleground states, but in most places, the presidential race wasn't competitive at all; most people live in "landslide counties," where one of the candidates won by at least 20 percentage points. 

"Nationally, 77% of all counties this year were won in a landslide. Four years ago, 79% of counties were won by 20 points or more," Bill Bishop reports for The Daily Yonder. "Nearly eight in 10 rural voters (77.3%) live in a landslide county, about the same as four years ago."

Though the 2020 race had a slightly lower percentage of landslide counties than in 2016, "The percentage of people living in a landslide county has been increasing since the mid-1970s," Bishop reports. 

In 2020, Texas boasted the most Republican urban and rural counties: Armstrong County, an Amarillo suburb, 93.2% of voters went for Trump. "The most Republican rural county was Roberts County in the Texas Panhandle, where 96.9% of the vote went for President Trump. Only 17 people there voted for the Democrat," Bishop reports.

Next-door neighbors Jefferson and Claiborne counties in the Mississippi Black Belt tied for the most Democratic rural counties, with 86.2% of votes going to Biden, Bishop reports.

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