States that voted for Biden lost jobs at double the rate of Republican ones during pandemic

[1rreducibly Complex]

States that voted for President Joe Biden in the 2020 election experienced significantly larger declines in total employment during the pandemic than those that went for Donald Trump, a new analysis shows.

Between February and December of last year, states that went for Biden saw the total number of people working drop an average of 6.2 percent, versus a 2.5 percent decline in those voting for the Republican, according to a DailyMail.com analysis of federal jobs data.

The 13 states that saw the lowest decline in employment all lean strongly Republican, led by Alaska and Utah which actually saw employment increase by 0.7 and 0.3 percent respectively.

On the other end of the spectrum, 13 of the 14 states with the most significant pandemic job losses went for the Democratic candidate, led by Nevada with job losses of 10.2 percent, and Hawaii at 9.3 percent.

Covid US: Job losses twice as high in Democrat states as Republican ones during pandemic | Daily Mail Online

 

[BobRyan]

Georgia should be red.

 

[Fantine]

Nevada and Hawaii have lots of tourism-related jobs, so of course they suffered most.

Blue states were more likely to take the pandemic seriously. They also continued the extended unemployment. My niece works in travel in NY and still gets partial unemployment because her hours are still part time.

Red states just refused the federal money saying people were lazy. My tenant still works shortened hours and he and his wife are $4000 behind in rent. Thanks, Governor Hutchinson. Not!!

And now, having been fed lies and mistruths, unvaccinated red state residents are dropping like flies. With a 75% unvaccinated rate, our ICUs and ventilators are almost maxed out--with younger patients.

They are reaping what they sowed.

 

[miamited]

@1rreducibly Complex

I imagine there could be some logical reasoning for that. Democratic states were more likely to follow the CDC guidelines than GOP states. Admittedly strict adherence to those guidelines put a lot of people out of work...temporarily. According to your opening statement, these employment numbers were 'during' the pandemic. So, states that followed the guidelines and closed all service and retail businesses would have had less employment. However, do you have any data on employment once the CDC lifted the strict guidelines?

We're also seeing that GOP states, on average, are having higher rates of unvaccinated and higher Covid illness and hospitalization and death. I don't know, what's best? Being out of job for a while or being dead forever?

God bless,
Ted

 

[iluvatar5150]

Nearly every one of those red states have infection rates higher than the national average despite the fact that they tend to have lower population density than blue states. The impact on employment was deliberate and, appropriate, at least somewhat effective.
United States COVID: 34,929,856 Cases and 624,606 Deaths - Worldometer

 

[essentialsaltes]

Yes, that's what shutting things down in a pandemic looks like. (And what not shutting them down looks like.)

 

[Pommer]

States that voted for President Joe Biden in the 2020 election experienced significantly larger declines in total employment during the pandemic than those that went for Donald Trump, a new analysis shows.

Between February and December of last year, states that went for Biden saw the total number of people working drop an average of 6.2 percent, versus a 2.5 percent decline in those voting for the Republican, according to a DailyMail.com analysis of federal jobs data.

The 13 states that saw the lowest decline in employment all lean strongly Republican, led by Alaska and Utah which actually saw employment increase by 0.7 and 0.3 percent respectively.

On the other end of the spectrum, 13 of the 14 states with the most significant pandemic job losses went for the Democratic candidate, led by Nevada with job losses of 10.2 percent, and Hawaii at 9.3 percent.

Covid US: Job losses twice as high in Democrat states as Republican ones during pandemic | Daily Mail Online

Yeah, Donald Trump was President in 2020. That blue states had the worst of the unemployment could have led both Democrats and Republicans of those states to vote for Biden, the President as of 01/20/2021.

[Edit: cleaned up grammar]

 

[Bradskii]

Yeah, Donald Trump was President in 2020. That blue states had the worst of the unemployment could have been why both Democrats and Republicans of those states to voted for Biden, the President as of 01/20/2021.

Exactly what the news article said:

• Difference might be due to severity of pandemic restrictions on the economy.
• Republican states are also less likely to have large cities and service economies.
• More severe job losses might have swayed voters against the incumbent Trump.

Isn't it weird that some people will take a set of figures that show one thing and completely misinterpret it because of prior bias.

 

[Pommer]

Exactly what the news article said:

• Difference might be due to severity of pandemic restrictions on the economy.
• Republican states are also less likely to have large cities and service economies.
• More severe job losses might have swayed voters against the incumbent Trump.

Isn't it weird that some people will take a set of figures that show one thing and completely misinterpret it because of prior bias.

A veritable mobius-strip-of-reasoning can do that, yes; the very essence of doublethink.

 

[morningstar2651]

Georgia should be red.

They voted for Biden.

 

[morningstar2651]

I'm guessing the 600,000 dead aren't measured as a "change in employment" because the dead didn't file a new jobless claim.

 

[iluvatar5150]

I'm guessing the 600,000 dead aren't measured as a "change in employment" because the dead didn't file a new jobless claim.

If anything, they’d make the unemployment numbers look a bit better by reducing the size of the labor pool.