This week's question was, What percentage of Americans live in a Solid Democratic or Republican county?

You answered: 36%.
The correct answer was 87%.

Almost 9 in 10 Americans live in a county that has voted for the same party in the past three presidential elections. Ballotpedia describes these as either Solid Democratic or Solid Republican counties, depending on the party that voters there supported.

After the 2020 presidential election, 288 million Americans lived in either a Solid Democratic or Republican county, 87.2% of the 330 million covered in this analysis. Most Americans live in one of 459 Solid Democratic counties (51.6% of the total population) followed by Americans living in one of 2,368 Solid Republican counties (35.6%).

Ballotpedia uses four categories to describe a county's voting pattern based on the three previous presidential elections: Solid, Trending, Battleground, and New. In addition to these categories, a county is also determined as either Democratic or Republican based on how it voted in the most recent election. Click [show] on the table below for examples:

County-level voting pattern categories
Democratic
Status	2012	2016	2020
Solid Democratic	D	D	D
Trending Democratic	R	D	D
Battleground Democratic	D	R	D
New Democratic	R	R	D
Republican
Status	2012	2016	2020
Solid Republican	R	R	R
Trending Republican	D	R	R
Battleground Republican	R	D	R
New Republican	D	D	R

Click here to learn more. The map below shows county-level presidential election results from 2012 to 2020. A county shaded blue voted for Biden in 2020 and a county shaded red voted for Trump

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