This isn't necessarily true. It's important not to conflate "small precinct" with "suburban/rural area" and "large precinct" with "urban area", since many rural precincts might have more voters than urban ones.
I wish someone would look at the underlying precinct data and redo this analysis while factoring in precinct population density.
This isn't necessarily true. It's important not to conflate "small precinct" with "suburban/rural area" and "large precinct" with "urban area", since many rural precincts might have more voters than urban ones.
And in fact, the paper spends quite a bit of time addressing this.
I wish someone would look at the underlying precinct data and redo this analysis while factoring in precinct population density.