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Re "the rich are still Republican outside of the coasts", it would be interesting (not sure if such data are reasonably available, and counties aren't a very good form of aggregation anyway - maybe ZIP codes?) to see the partisan alignment of people whose houses are say +2 sigma above median for the relevant unit of aggregation.

$1.5M is less than one sigma above median for my not quite coastal California ZIP code, and probably a bit under median for my (red-tinged purple, blue trending) voting precinct.

Net wealth would be obviously even better, although I think net wealth would still somewhat overstate the wealth on the coasts (one of my neighbors with a $1.5M market value house and $300k of equity appears to have $300k of net wealth but is likely to burn at least $100k of that net wealth liquidating the house in question).

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