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Another bright bulb from the conservatives....
What they don't understand from the red/blue maps is that land doesn't vote. Show them a population density map.
This is how conservatives argue: in bad faith. The data is out there, they just choose to discount it wholesale because academia has an inherent liberal (reality based) bias. They project their own corruption onto it, ie, If we ran the numbers, it would reveal the real truth. When they hear these arguments of big number us, small number them, it reinforces their worldview of the “silent majority”, without any sort of context to the data provided that explains how things actually work—that their “big number” actually signifies less people across more landmass (in certain areas of course, this is not universally true).
The truth is out there. They want to believe [alternative facts instead].
They explicitly do not want their supporters understanding concepts like "per capita."
I wish I was joking, there are people who think "per capita" was made up by liberals to make conservatives look bad.
The density of the population does indeed affect the density of the population
They don't care about facts. They just say stuff for the effect. Which is a kind of stupid but maybe also just a different thing, something broken in their soul.