
My guy there are literally hundreds of spoiler candidates recruited in each election cycle, this isn’t anything new. Also, there’s no evidence peltola herself was involved. That’s just a claim right wing media wants you to believe. Like dgmw it could be true, but there’s no evidence of that yet. Conservative media loves the “guilty until proven innocent” angle for their opponents.
This map shows lots of democratic areas or counties with large democratic cities in them. Even the western half of Mississippi votes very blue, despite being rural and also do the bigger cities. But the state is still heavily Republican and their schools have improved more than anyone else's in the country while city schools (democrat) still suffer, in other states too. The red districts are performing better and improving faster.
It’s pretty closely correlated with income rates and demographics, the latter influenced by the former. The poorer counties have less resources to fund education, and consequently result in lower education scores and attainment. You can’t deny that there’s a significantly higher proportion of worse educated counties in the south