Corona virus, China major city lockdowns, etc.

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The urban area that will vote for Biden is masked, the rural area that will vote for Trump is largely unmasked. It has nothing to do with politics, though, it has to do with the different mask requirements impacting the different areas.

Well that's an explanation. Doesn't seem to apply here though. Requirements here are statewide and observance of the mandates seems to be the opposite of what you described.

Either what I see is just too small a sample to be meaningful or something else is going on. Perhaps age is a factor as you described above. When I've been in small towns this summer I haven't seen many children or college-age people, unlike in a nearby college town where masking seems to be about 50% in the shopping strip.

I think masking is more complicated than politics though. I've even seen a few like these around: