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One guess could be a latent result of people moving out of the cities as a result of the pandemic. This probably started in 2020, but may have continued since as a result of more remote work possibilities and/or desire to be in less densely populated areas.
As cities traditionally are blue leaning, this would result in democratic proportions in surrounding areas increasing and proportional decrease in cities.
EDIT: I misunderstood the OP to be asking why voters, overall shifted red. My comment below is basically irrelevant to this topic.
Not certain that makes sense, unless people are moving to different states. If people are just moving out of cities, to more rural areas in the same state, then we should see a redder shift of cities AND a blue shift in the more rural areas. The only way your statement can be true is if potential blue voting people from borderline blue, purple states moved to deeply red states. Like this, the purple states become more red, and the red state becomes more blue, but if it was a deeply red state, the amount of people would not have an electoral effect.
I'm leaning more towards less blue voting people voting this election based on the ~7million less votes Kamala got compared to Biden's 2020 number, while trump had about the same number of votes in 2020 and 2024.
If you got any evidence though, i'd be interested in seeing it.
But that's exactly what's being shown in the Atlanta "Changes from 2020" and Milwaukee "Changes from 2020" images posted. I do agree blue voter turnout was overall less for whatever reason, but I'm not sure that would explain those results.
That’s exactly what’s shown in the post.
Sorry you're right, my mistake. I misunderstood the topic.