I know, I'm stating the obvious, but I find this map striking



All that contiguous red and blue (the blue just increased in the east)...it's wild that the U.S. is still practically two separate countries that will never understand each other very well.

Just musing.

And I think the Dems turned at least four states blue this time around.

we shall now be known as the creeping blue death
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Democrats!
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Fate!
Of the president-elect, this November!
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So let it be written
So let it be done
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So let it be written
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BLUE CREEPING DEATH

Some states have slightly more conservatives in them, and some states have slightly more liberals. Regional differences in prevailing attitudes toward guns and god. Even in the last election, when the red/blue electoral college divide was much more pronounced, if you looked at the popular vote, there were swirls of blue in the red states and swirls of red in the blue.

Don't fall for an us and them mentality, we're more alike than different.

Do they have any of those funky maps where everything's laid out by population and not geographical size? Y'know – the ones we clung to after Bush won a second term.

I was going to say something similar. If you look at the map by county, It'd look very purple (I couldn't find one though).

I know that, and I also know that many states were close, both ways-but still, that color pattern is no freak coincidence.

There's a reason they are called "Fly Over States".

Here:



http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/

CREEPING BLUE DEATH? MORE LIKE THE STRANGULATING RED DEATH....

no shit
good one danny!

I think it's more like 8.

Nevada
Colorado
Virginia
North Carolina
Ohio
Iowa
Florida
Indiana

What I find the most striking is that there is a dividing line from Mexico to Canada that includes Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota. It's as if it fades to blue a litte on either side of the line until you get to the coasts where it's pretty much all blue (with the exception of Georgia and South Carolina.). Maybe this isolation prevents them from developing any other viewpoint.

Poor Colorado and New Mexico.

Funny that in Red Dawn all the territory occupied by the Russians and the Cubans was pretty much the red states in the center of the country. Good map to go by if any country plans on invading.

I initially considered the pattern completely random. Thanks for informing us that there are actually socioeconomic and cultural factors reflected in our country's political landscape.

clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here i am....

The American invasion of Dumbfuckistan has begun in earnest!

Nice

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