Least dense/Most rural mainly white CDs to vote for Hillary

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Honestly the answer is probably VT-AL. I actually looked it up and there are no majority-rural districts in California. ME-01 has Portland which is bigger than Burlington. NH-02 has Concord and, weirdly, Nashua.

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Is there even a single majority-rural district in the West?

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only other one I can think of is maybe ME-1 or CT-2, but both of them have decent sized cities in them

Are you referring to New London?  That's not very urban even by Connecticut standards.

Yeah New London and Storrs. I think the district would've gone republican if UConn wasn't in it

UCONN probably helps... it's definitely the most working class part of the state and most receptive to Trump's message.  Although it's practically in the Boston metro area so who knows.

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only other one I can think of is maybe ME-1 or CT-2, but both of them have decent sized cities in them

Are you referring to New London?  That's not very urban even by Connecticut standards.

Yeah New London and Storrs. I think the district would've gone republican if UConn wasn't in it

UCONN probably helps... it's definitely the most working class part of the state and most receptive to Trump's message.  Although it's practically in the Boston metro area so who knows.

No.

It's been a while since I've lived in Connecticut, but I'm pretty sure the northeast corner of the state is like an hour from Boston.  I consider an hour or so distance to be "practically" within a metro area.

Google tells me it's an hour and a half from Storrs to Boston.

...After typing that I realized that you meant eastern Connecticut in general, not Storrs in particular. I'd still say it's a stretch to call it "practically" in the Boston metro.

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only other one I can think of is maybe ME-1 or CT-2, but both of them have decent sized cities in them

Are you referring to New London?  That's not very urban even by Connecticut standards.

Yeah New London and Storrs. I think the district would've gone republican if UConn wasn't in it

UCONN probably helps... it's definitely the most working class part of the state and most receptive to Trump's message.  Although it's practically in the Boston metro area so who knows.

No.

It's been a while since I've lived in Connecticut, but I'm pretty sure the northeast corner of the state is like an hour from Boston.  I consider an hour or so distance to be "practically" within a metro area.

Google tells me it's an hour and a half from Storrs to Boston.

...After typing that I realized that you meant eastern Connecticut in general, not Storrs in particular. I'd still say it's a stretch to call it "practically" in the Boston metro.

how do you define metro areas?  Fairfield County is well over an hour from NYC and is definitely in the NYC metro area.  At any rate, I was conjecturing that although Eastern Connecticut doesn't have any real cities (I don't consider New London a solid/politically powerful city like Bridgeport or Hartford), it is still relatively close to liberal hot spots (New Haven to the Southwest and more particularly Boston to the Northeast) that I would think there is some spillover of progressive values and culture.

Hartford and Worcester are both closer than Boston. The NYC metro area is obviously bigger than the Boston one.