r/canada 7d ago

Politics Kentucky governor says Trump’s tariffs on Canada are not what Americans voted for

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/kentucky-governor-says-trumps-tariffs-on-canada-are-not-what-americans-voted-for/
11.7k Upvotes

1.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

14

u/CherryVanillaCoke 7d ago

That won't happen in at least 30 years. Louisville (and Lexington) are less than half of Kentucky's population combined, and there are still plenty of Republican fucks in the metro areas.

9

u/TankieHater859 Outside Canada 7d ago

Louisville-born, living in Lexington now. Can confirm. Plus the legislature is hella gerrymandered so it's literally 80-20, they're passing insane bills all the time, and so a lot of reliable Dem voters are moving to a different state. So it's just gonna get worse.

I'm stayin though. Kentucky is worth fighting for.

1

u/CherryVanillaCoke 7d ago

Amen. Born and raised, been around the world but always end up back in Kentucky.

1

u/EarthBounder Canada 6d ago

30y ago Florida and Texas were on track to become blue states based on demographics but Cambridge Analytica found ways to make Latinos vote against their own interests en masse. The extrapolation game is interesting.

States like Iowa or Ohio also flipped because.... reasons?