Forget Washington’s east-west divide; the real fight is rural vs urban

For decades, polls called it a "leveling curtain", a clear voting habit gap between the western part of the state of Washington and the eastern part. Eastern Washington State voted to support the Republican Party, the idea is that the state's Pacific Coast and Puget Sound County tend to be generous

In the best case, this theory is only partially correct. Former Republican governor and US Senator Dan Evans are from Seattle. Governor Jay Inslee is the Democrat who first won the office in Yakima. However, the curtain widely explains the political differences between the sides of the mountain of the split country.

But political scientists say the time has come to push the curtain aside. Recent voter voting, election results, and economic data show that the difference between Washington is the difference between city and rural village, not something.

Stewart Elway, who has been studying the habit of voting in Washington state since 1975 stated that the election change in 2016 is very obvious and that all votes made since then have become clearer. Since Herbert Hoover voted for Donald Trump, there was no vote to support Republican coastal counties.

"What happened last in 2016 was that Republicans - especially trumps - shipped several counties along the coast of Washington," Elway, the head of Nonpartisan Elway Research said It was. "Grace Harbor, Pacific Coast, Cowris

"Let people think that there are more than Oriental and Western, this is complicated.We organize politics with concern, but our government is organized by geographical location I will. "

The president has 27 of the 39 counties in the state, but the total number of votes is only 38%. "54% of our state voters live in four counties near Puget Sound," he said.

He added that the most wealthy county became Donald Trump. The cards occupy 25 of the 26 most prosperous counties. This brought another strange effect: according to figures in the state budget, only six counties in Washington are net donors or "donor" counties. In other words, they generate more income than they receive from the state budget. (King, Pierce, Snohomish is one of them.)

The rest are net receivers. But he stated that the view of the voters is not consistent with the reality. Voters in the poorest countries (such as Ferry County) often feel that local taxes are flowing into social projects in the city center.

"This is a big topic - especially in East Washington," Elway said. "When we asked people about this, only 12% of the recipient's people said that their counties were more than they invested."

Politicians know that they are really dissatisfied with the incorrect idea that diligent rural residents are financing urban services. "This feeling has been used and used," he said. But when political scientists look deeper, this is not the overall reason for the difference between cities and rural areas.

For example, in Elway and other opinion polls, recognition of the root cause of poverty depends greatly on whether respondents live in the city or in the country. Generally, respondents in rural areas believe that poverty arises from lack of effort, respondents in urban areas consider it to be "a condition that does not exceed (one's) management."

Demographic variables refer primarily to personal statistics such as income, gender, education, places (rural and urban, eastern and western), ethnicity, family size etc. For example, in Campbell's soup, Western consumers in the United States found that they liked more spicy soup. Therefore, on the East Coast and the West Coast, you can purchase various products in the same can. In the face of traditional male-led gun support sales, manufacturers have released Lady Remington, a smaller and more user-friendly gun that is more attractive to women. Furthermore, it is also possible to separate lifestyle and values. "

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