Against Regionalism As Made Worse By The Friggin' Founders And Their Dirty Electoral College Scheme

I've been looking at the percentages to find how many people in the most benighted states voted for Biden over fascism, as far as I can tell the worst of those is West Virginia where 29.6% of the vote went to Biden and 68.7 went for fascism.  It's surprising how even some of the relatively worst states, as could be predicted, had far higher percentages of their Voters going for Biden over fascism than you'd guess from the maps and the coverage.

One of the worst things about American political systems are that they are winner-take-all, the Electoral College exacerbates not only that by disappearing many voters entirely, effectively nullifying their votes, but it also promotes regional hatred and division, especially as seen in the disgusting "red-blue" maps that are a ubiquitous lie about both the devotion to democracy in "blue" states and the love of fascism in "red" states.   The fact is in states having among the highest percentages of those who voted for democracy, Biden, there are dangerously high levels of voting for the worst and most blatantly criminal would-be fascist dictator in our history.   Massachusetts had 32.6% supporting fascism, California, 33.4%, Oregon a startling 40.6%.  Maine, a state which can go back to its place of shame had 44.2% vote for the fascist thug. Little, lily white Vermont has the distinction of having "only" 30.8% who voted for fascism this time. 

I don't know the extent to which people still have a strong sense of identity with the state they live in,  Maine has always had something of a skeptical attitude towards that, probably a remnant of the inferiority complex our ancestors had when it was, first, a colony of Massachusetts and later colonized by "people from away" who loved to find us natives quaintly stupid and amusing.   But I'm sure that the Electoral College does nothing to broaden our imaginations about ourselves as it reinforces negative stereotypes about those in other places.  

It was one of the oddest things about my youth that the first time I ever heard anyone express the idea that "Southerners are stupid" wasn't from some New England Yankee but from a college student from Indiana who came to New England for college.  I'd never heard anyone accuse an entire region of the country of stupidity during my entire upbringing until I went to college.  I remember how shocked I was to hear someone who aspired to be taken as educated expressing such an illiberal opinion. Then I was exposed to more of the type from other places, not a few of them from other parts of the North East and I'm sure that other people in other places in the country could report analogous experiences expressing other regional stereotypes.  

I have noted before that, contrary to stereotype, that several New England states have had chief executives and important state positions filled by those "from away," Maine has had a governor and a senator who came here from Virginia (Angus King) and a really great leader of our State legislature from South Carolina (Libby Mitchell).  Other states have had important offices filled by those from elsewhere. I'd love to have a list of those in other states who have the same that could be said about them, the more the better, the more we break down the divisions, the better.