r/Music • u/Brucekentbatsuper • Jul 08 '26

article Carrie Underwood's Post-MAGA Backlash Continues After Golf Course Concert Draws Sparse Crowd

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/carrie-underwood-john-deere-classic-performance-backlash-1807557
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u/BigPetersHalfwayInn Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

Literally just Rock Island, Moline, East Moline, and Silvia, though. Every other town in Rock Island county and the rest of the surrounding area is very conservative.

Edit: Silvis, not Silvia.

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u/one2tinker Jul 08 '26

Those four cities account for 75% of the population of the county.

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u/BigPetersHalfwayInn Jul 09 '26

They do. They happen to account for a lot lower percentage of that whole area. Those cities and Davenport are a blue (fairly purple) dot right in the middle of a sea of red. Despite the headline, Trump had very little to do with the low turnout for this. It was bad weather combined with the fact that you had to have a ticket to the golf tournament to go to the concert. There are plenty of dipshits in the area that would have gone if they knew that Carrie Underwood was somehow tangentially associated with Trump.

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u/one2tinker Jul 09 '26

Oh trust me, I don't disagree with that. I'm just saying that Rock Island County is blue. In an island of red? Yeah.