Feeling Blue

I know that the election is old hat at this point, but I still continue to marvel at the electoral "blueness" of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Check out the percentiles for three representative counties - Contra Costa (in which I reside), Alameda, and Marin.

There's been a lot of talk - and more than a little condescension - about the apparent anomaly of non-wealthy Red-State-ers voting against "their interests" (sc., pecuniary interests) by casting their
lot with the Republicans. Prescinding from the variety of interests which animate people, I wonder why it's not similarly anomalous that wealthy counties like Contra Costa allegedly vote against their (economic) interests - viz., in favor of higher taxation - when casting a vote for the Dems(?)

Wherever one's true interests lie, I suspect that this peculiar line of attack against the Red State Voters is more than a bit patronizing. (And check out how pink-red CA is, outside of the Bay Area)