GOP Outnumber Democrats in Voter Registration Despite Allegedly Dying Off From COVID
New Mexico voter rolls favor Republicans 25,000 vs -2,500 since Jan. 2020
COVID vaccines prevented many deaths, they said.
More Republicans died of COVID than Democrats due to anti-vax disinformation, they said.
The data showed this, they said.
And yet, New Mexico Secretary of State voter registration data shows that the state’s Grand Old Party has 25,000 more residents on the voter rolls in November 2023 than it did in January 2020, when COVID swept the globe and devastated the world economy. Democrats, by contrast, have 2,563 fewer registered voters than they did in January 2020.
What gives?
How is it possible that COVID deaths were as much as 75% higher among Republicans than Democrats, according to “studies,” but there’s more Republicans than ever? And in a state with statistically zero population growth, no less?
There are only a couple explanations, and none are great news for New Mexico Democrats.
Life expectancy in general varies by region, with rural Americans dying younger than urban Americans, Blacks dying younger than Whites, and Hispanics living longer than both.
Rural Americans are older, they drink more, smoke more, own more guns, and are less likely (due to the burden of geographical distance) to seek medical interventions. They are also more religious than their urban counterparts, putting them more at peace with the prospect of meeting their maker. Add in the fact that they’re funnier, handier, and more polite, and it’s a wonder anybody in their right mind would ever move to the city.
So what’s the cost of the freedom-loving rural lifestyle? According to the ever-prestigious “American Journal of Preventive Medicine,” which does not adjust for Indian Reservations, rural Americans live an estimated two years less than urbanites.
In New Mexico, it’s difficult to make a clear-cut case for why the mainstream media would claim anti-vax hicks were dying off in record numbers from COVID when only half the state resides in the three most urban counties (Bernalillo, Doña Ana, and Santa Fe). But the voter registration trend favoring Republicans since COVID isn’t specific to New Mexico. Arizona added 81,000 Republicans to the voter rolls from January 2020 to July 2023, compared to just 32,000 new Democrats. In West Virginia—as red as red states get—the GOP added 48,000 while Democrats lost 114,000 voters. Even in the deep blue state of Oregon, which hasn’t voted for a Republican since Reagan, Republicans had 4,500 fewer registered voters than Democrats from January 2020 to November 2023 but saw a slightly higher percentage increase in GOP voters.
It may not be the case that more Republicans died than Democrats from COVID. It may be that post-COVID mortality rates favor the unvaccinated. Or—even more devastating for Democrats—maybe the election of Joe Biden and the Woke wave of tranny culture and diversity-hired incompetence that crashed down over a mostly moderate American populace caused the Democrat brand to capsize under the weight of its own virtue signaling even as Republicans were dying like flies in a wet market.
Whatever the case may be, hat tip to New Mexico GOP chairman Steve Pearce for overseeing the registration of 25,000 Republicans during a time when we were all supposed to be victims of Biden’s darkly anticipated “winter of severe illness and death.”