Now that the signup period for health insurance purchased through the ACA health care exchanges is over, the Associated Press has analyzed the signups and found that more than 80% of those who signed up for health insurance are in states that voted for Trump.





Americans in states that Donald Trump carried in his march to the White House account for more than 4 in 5 of those signed up for coverage under the health care law the president still wants to take down. An Associated Press analysis of new figures from the government found that 7.3 million of the 8.8 million consumers signed up so far for next year come from states Trump won in the 2016 presidential election. The four states with the highest number of sign-ups — Florida, Texas, North Carolina and Georgia, accounting for nearly 3.9 million customers — were all Trump states… AP’s analysis found that 11 states beat 2017’s enrollment figures. Of them, eight — Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming — went for Trump, who posted double-digit victories in all but Iowa.

Now many of those people obviously did not vote for Trump, but this fits a pattern of red states being the ones with the highest rates of poverty and highest need of social services that the people they vote into office are always trying to cut. But there’s also a correlation between people who need social services also being the most prone to emotional manipulation, particularly fear and bigotry, in the manner that Trump tapped into so successfully. They point to immigrants and “globalists” as the reason those voters are poor and a great many of them, especially uneducated white men, fall for it hook, line and sinker.