alt Hacker News> People in red state have been voting to shit on the environment for longer than I have been alive,
Red states still have a significant population that don't vote Republican and they're more often than not the ones who bear the brunt of negatives like data center construction.
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Yeah, I hate this narrative that rural areas are 99% republican maga people. Often they win the vote by at best a few percentage points.
Like how the dnc is surprised when their overzealous and poorly thought out gun control measures are turned down by democratic voters. Of course they are, near 50% of rural areas are democrats and many own and use guns. They aren't going to just bandwagon along with poorly conceived legislation that restricts their actively used rights.
Yeah! It really sucks. Still, what should NY do of that?