Here's a map of Minnesota, showing each county as if it were an oddly shaped pie chart of the red/blue vote break-down per county:

(I saw it on Facebook, so let's hope it's accurate.)
The red percentage is on the right, the blue on the right.
The thing I noticed is that my county, Ramsey, which is the smallest one in the state, also clearly has the highest blue percentage in the state, with almost no red showing on the right side of the shape:

By comparison, I'd guess Minneapolis's county, Hennepin, is about 25% red on the right, which makes sense, given that Hennepin is much larger and contains very rich, farther-flung suburbs, while Saint Paul makes up a larger percentage of Ramsey and most of our suburbs are older and inner-ring ones.
As usual with most election maps, this one does not adjust for population density, so all of those mostly red counties may seem to outnumber the mostly blue ones, but it is almost 100% true that if a county is more than half blue, it also has substantially more people within it than the ones that are more than half red.

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