From Infidel753:
With three exceptions (Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota), the states in the hardest-hit category are all solid Republican. That’s superficially surprising because most of these states are heavily rural, with scattered populations. California, New York, Oregon, Washington, etc. have most of their populations concentrated in dense urban areas which should be more susceptible to a highly-infectious disease like covid-19. Yet it’s states without that vulnerability which are suffering the most.
The reason, of course, is that the factors that made the US easy prey for the virus — bad leadership and mass stupidity — are especially evident in the red states.