Interesting take on red state/blue state graph

[YOUR KONG]

Found this on BoingBoing.net - some insightful guy decided to represent states not as red or blue but on the spectrum BETWEEN red or blue.



Pretty interesting. Remember, this was a 51% victory.

[jdsowa]

Yeah. No major cities = more red.

here's another way to look at the country:

http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm

[digital19]

That's funny!

I think someone could do a whole thesis paper on that chart.

[apropos of nothing]

Here's another interesting take:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/s4/86092.html

[wayne kerr]

This is news? That the coasts and industrial northeast votes Democrat and the heartland and bible belt/sunbelt votes Republican? Why do you think they redistricted 10 years ago!

SMH

[trashy]

This is news? That the coasts and industrial northeast votes Democrat and the heartland and bible belt/sunbelt votes Republican? Why do you think they redistricted 10 years ago!

SMH

Naw, chaeck out the county-by-county. I'm too lazy to find it right now. Pretty much every major city went Kerry, and everybody else went Bush.

I love my party, but we f-ing suck at getting our message heard in places where people drive pick-up trucks. I don't blame the Rep.s at all. I live in a very rural area and I know the truth: we suck. We have great common-sense policies, but our message delivery just blows: "Well, it's a little more complicated than that..." Identity politics has killed our party. As has our uncanny ability to select the most humorless elitist snoremasters as candidates...

[wayne kerr]

As has our uncanny ability to select the most humorless elitist snoremasters as candidates...

Now that's just about the most intelligent thing I've ever heard on this topic! Y'know, Trashy, I voted almost exclusively Green and Libertarian this time. I was going to vote for Kerry but I just couldn't do it with a clear conscience. Trust me, I wanted Bush gone as much as anyone else and if I didn't live in CA, where Kerry was guaranteed our 55 votes, I would've surely voted for him. But it is so time for a change. The last Democrat I sincerely believed in (even worked on his campaign) was Paul Wellstone when I was a student at the University of Minnesota. He was, IMHO, the epitome of a public servant. And he was a very engaging and principled individual. Even Newt Gingrich called him the "conscience of the Senate." He's dead now. What a loss- it still stings, in fact.

Anyway, the next four years should be interesting to say the least, eh? I myself am going to work to help some good 3rd party candidates come to the fore. I voted my conscience and it felt great and I want more Americans to be able to do that. "Anybody but Bush" is not democracy.

Kickin it down south,

SMH

[coniferouspine]

Forgive me if this has been posted elsewhere, but I thought this was another interesting map here.


Now Vs. Then

(I'll editorialize a bit, and say that as a Southerner living in one of the most racially tense cities in the country if not the world, this map shows me basically who the Republican party is, and what they're *really* all about, when you get down to the core of the issue of right-wing conservative vs. liberal ideology. There's no question that beneath the veneer of right-wing conservaitve "moral values" lies the skeleton of racism and hatred for the freedoms granted minorities due to Democratic-sponsored Civil Rights lesgislation of the 1960s.)