[blast]

> If it really was population density, it would be easy to discuss politics in urban NYC and very difficult/ rare in rural Wyoming.

This assumes that the effects of population density are continuously distributed, but what if the national discourse is affected by population density in a way that shows up across the entire country?

[thephyber]

It turns out that population density is highly correlated with Democrat / Republican voting behavior.

But I was pointing out that the article/title is easily refuted. It’s not as simple as that heuristic.