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Originally Posted by Centropolis
st. louis county...... must not be over 1,000,000 anymore.
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yeah, it's now fallen just below that threshold after poking above it in census 2000.
it was 998,954 in 2010, and is now estimated to be 994,205, so pretty damn close.
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i posted the data below in the election thread in CE, but that thread is primarily a cesspool of axe-grinding stupidity, so we can probably have a more interesting discussion here, as long as people keep this
STRICTLY about data without the usual BS.
Cook county (chicago + inner burbs) is solidly blue, downstate is solidly red, and they kind of counterbalance each other.
The four main chicagoland collar counties of dupage, lake, will, and kane are where the tipping point usually occurs.
Cook county is far and away the largest county in illinois (5.2M people), but the 4 main collar counties are numbers 2 - 5 in illinois, and together total around 2.8M people.
A generation or two ago they were typically republican strongholds (
"the dems might have cook, but we've got 'em by the collars"), but now???
Check this out:
Lake County (696,535 people): +20 biden
Dupage County (922,921 people): +18 biden*
Kane County (532,403 people): +14 biden
Will County (690,743 people): +8 biden
And all of them got bluer vs. 2016
And the vast bulk of downstate got redder (outside of a handful of college town counties)
illinois' two worlds keep drifting ever further away from each other.
(*) from 1916 - 2004, dupage county had gone republican in every single presidential election. hometown hero obama finally flipped it twice in 2008 & 2012, and hillary (who was born and raised in chicagoland) also won it in 2016, but biden is the 1st non-republican candidate without any illinois ties to win dupage county in over a century, and by 18 freaking points, no less!