And I haven't heard it driving people towards the Republicans.

It doesn't need to

Trump's black approval rating is a pretty big deal.

and hispanic

And the midterms are decided in the suburbs. Middle class women have been driving the resistance.

It's in the 30s now isn't it?

Yeah. It's histroically high.

People not voting for dems or voting third party against a solid repub bloc has the same result

Really what is happening is that the political divide is becoming a male/female divide.

nah

With millennial women being the tightest block. As tight as blacks now.

authoritarian and libertarian

>Middle class women have been driving the resistance.
Really makes you ponder women's suffrage

I'd argue it was #MeToo.

They've basically re-written alot of the Democratic party at this point.

Didn't the political divide map closest to guns?

Issue-wise, yes.

It's also heavily decided by population density.

that would be authoritarian vs libertarian

not left/right

many gun owning liberals

Guns are a true urban/rural issue.

Also didn't white wahmen get Trump elected?

In part.

many reasons trump got elected

Not in total.

I remember him scoring remarkably well within certain age groups

2016 = Hilary beat herself

2020 = people vote for trump

Mostly voter turnout was low, which favors Republicans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoolJjRxExA

So glad Harmful is back

Rural people (liberals included) tend to see guns as key tools for fending against animals and potential attackers.

Urbanites (conservatives included) see guns purely as a weapon for crime.

Which is interesting because there are more human attackers in the cities

A theory I like is that rural living tends to make people self-reliant. Urban living makes people dependent.

people in citys have a stronger force acting on them than self preservation

media

So when you're at risk of being attacked, rural people will tend to ask what they might do to protect themselves. Urbanites will tend to ask what it would take to get someone else to take care of them.

besides the government doesent get to spend your tax money on defending you if you can defend yourself

The problem there is that the latter isn't really feasible

Government generally doesn't defend you. Government cleans up the mess afterwards.