katallison | (no subject)

sockkpuppett earlier posted the US voting breakdown, state by state, as shades of purple, instead of blue vs. red; here's the same thing, except county by county.

I find this fascinating, especially as a countermeasure to the generalizations about the South and Midwest that have been flying around the past couple of days. Consider, for example, that very blueish-toned band of counties meandering from Louisiana through Alabama and Mississippi and into South Carolina. Or those blue spots in the upper Great Plains--I can't even identify what, if any, cities those would map onto. (Since state boundaries aren't shown, one thing this map also reveals to me is my less-than-perfect grasp of geography. *g*)

I should locate a good color printer and run myself a copy of this, to tack up over my desk. Nothing about this country is as simple as I am sometimes, in my bitter moments, tempted to believe.

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I've made this comment on a couple of other journals today, but I am really please and a bit surprised to see that Texas wasn't the solid red that we were led to belive. Even my county is purple (Harris County where Houston is and where Former President Bush lives when he's not in Maine. I liked seeing the darker purple up through Arkansas and Southeast Missouri too. I was born in S.E. Missouri and have family up there.

I'm in Clay County, Texas. Although way too red, it's a little bluer thanks to my vote. I like this thing, it's cool.

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