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Allegheny County didn't really go farther to the left. Clinton won a slightly lower share of the vote than Obama did.
Some of the Philadelphia suburbs did move farther left. Clinton did 3 percentage points better in Chester County than Obama did and two points better in Montgomery County. She slightly underperformed Obama in Bucks and Delaware (1 point).
This election essentially solidified that Pennsylvania is more Midwestern in character than many want to acknowledge.
as a state the areas west of the eastern seaboard may be more Appalachian then Midwest
PA went red (barely and may have been from more of lack of consistent blue volume then swell of red vote - wonder if some people just stayed aside on the blue leaning element not making a choice), one thing to call out is Philly proper which was dominated by Hillary vote had a lower turnout and produced lower gap or blue count not really more red just fewer Blue votes then expected
PA is two states and always has been, but probably more Appalachian then Midwestern on that regard outside of the population centers
Maybe some of your so called "metros" do not extend past the county line and if you are driving past corn and soybean fields or cow pastures as soon as you pass the county line that would explain why those areas went red.
Montgomery County (Ohio) where Dayton is went red, the country people on the west side turned out in larger numbers than the city people did.
Miami was pretty divided a lot of Cubans and other Latinos voted Blue and younger Latinos voted Red. Trump dominated the rural parts of Florida and won some of the Latinos vote.
Pittsburgh was pretty damn divided. I would say Allegheny County probably has half of the Pittsburgh MSA population and it went blue. Every county surrounding Allegheny went red. It was probably nearly 50/50.
Philadelphia and the surrounding area went mostly blue, with only a handful of the surrounding counties going red.
Philadelphia, Bucks, Montgomery, Delaware, Chester, New Castle, Burlington, Camden, Cumberland and Atlantic Counties went Blue.
Berks, Kent, Cecil, Gloucester, Salem and Cape May counties went red.
Erie and Luzerne Counties in PA went red for the first time in ages this year. Not that shocking though.
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