Thats why i love Maine.

Interesting, however, I sort doubt the accuracy. I guess it really depends on what you are defining as urban.

And we still get all those complaints about being dominated by Portland lmao

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I mean, voting wise we are largely blue due to our urban areas. Most urban areas drive more democratic views. Like Austin within Texas.

Did you look at the map?

Blue, as in voting, as in democratic. This was more of a side comment to your “dominated by Portland” idea. Politically our state often reflects liberal ideals because the urban areas in Maine vote. Anyway, doesn’t matter.

If that was the case, then every other state in the deep south would vote more democratic than us. Politically speaking our rural areas and suburbs are less uniformly conservative than elsewhere. Portland isn't any more liberal than your average liberal city.

Maine and Vermont - my two favorite places!

It appears to be using census data as aggregated by Wikipedia. At a glance that includes Portland, Lewiston, Bangor, as well as a number of "urban clusters" (I think I saw kennebunk and brunswick mentioned).

A lot of the places mentioned are not what I would consider urban(Berwick), but seem to be included due to their proximity to an urban area.

The deep south does vote democratic, but its gerrymandering that flips the results.

That's incredibly untrue, lol.

They would still be red states even without voters suppression and gerrymandering. The dirty tactics turn smallish Republican majorities onto supermajorities.

Because they have a higher population density and the majority of the population isn't conserative. It's not cities, it's majority. Also the coastal areas are blue as well, even low pop areas.

It's incredibly true and i am sure a bot can back me up on that.

I am concerned that people these days are apparently too emotionally immature to accept that cultural differences cause certain regions of the country to prefer opposing political parties.

Do we have oppositional political parties? Because they look like a fairly united group of class warriors.