re: Is it official, Georgia is a Blue state now?

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What makes Georgia that much different from places like Texas and Florida (two other populous sunbelt states that have either been predicted to be "turning purple" or gone that way in prior elections) with regard to Trump?

Why do suburbanites in those states seemingly find him at least a bit more palatable (at least certainly when facing the likes of Hillary and Biden) than those in Georgia?

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Trump has the same problems with suburban voters in Texas. Trump was the only state-wide Republican who lost Tarrant County (Fort Worth) in 2020 and he performed horribly in both Collin and Denton Counties. In 2016 he received under 52% of the vote in Tarrant County. For comparison, Mitt Romney received 57% of the vote in that county in 2012. Additionally, Trump received 3,000 fewer votes than Romney did despite there being nearly 58K more votes cast in the county in 2016 than in 2012. If that's not an indictment for how toxic he is in the suburbs, I don't know what is.


What helps him is that Texas has more "rural" counties than Georgia that are also bigger. This helps offset how badly he performs and how much he underperforms other Republicans in the suburbs.