Thread by @charles_gaba

📣 NEW: The Outliers: 179 counties which don't quite fit the narrative:
acasignups.net/21/07/22/outli…

Recently I looked at 77 counties where <40% of the population was vaccinated & Trump received <40% of the vote...and 4 where >60% were vaxxed & Trump received >60%.

I found a disturbing pattern in the low-vaxx/low-Trump counties.

Today I've updated this, but expanded the range.

Instead of using <40% & >60%, I changed it to <45% & >55% for both vaxx levels & Trump support.

Findings:
--16 million unvaccinated 12yo+ in the Blue Lo-Vax counties
--500K unvaccinated 12yo+ in the Red Hi-Vax counties
--41M unvaccinated 12yo+ in the Red Lo-Vax counties

Of the 146 Blue Lo-Vax counties, 106 of them are either majority or plurality BIPOC:
--79 majority Black
--19 40%+ Black
--8 majority Native American

--Of the 2,103 Red Low-Vax counties, 60%+ of the population is white in 2,038 of them, and is a majority in another 55. They contain 41 million unvaccinated/partly-vaccinated residents 12yo+.

On the one hand, there's 2.5x as many unvaccinated people in the Red Low-Vax quadrant. On the other hand, they're also a lot more hostile towards getting vaccinated.

When you have limited resources you have to target them where they'd be most effective.

📣 If you're GOING to focus on red counties, however, I'd strongly recommend seeing what these 33 Red High-Vaxx counties are doing RIGHT.

In some cases it's obvious (see: Sumter County, FL, home of The Villages), but I'm not familiar enough w/most of these to speculate: