I wonder if the lesson is:

People in urban areas require "liberal" solutions to social problems that suburban and rural people do not need. Suburban and rural people just see a waste of money on programs that are not relevant to them. This is probably the case. But, in the cities, we really need to effect some action that normally, I would not prescribe: redistributing income, for example, in order to keep the peace and keep the system running.

We just don't understand each other.

Two other problems according to Kim du Toit:

1: Most of the military bases are in the Red States.
2: Most of the private guns are in the Red States conservatives(Blue States tends to restrict private gun ownership).

No matter how you slice the map: Kerry is still a loser.

Given the tone of the rhetoric lately, I think an intercession might be a good idea.

Tony Blair as facilitator?

Cheers,

Ha! You hit the nail right on the head. Nice post.

I think BigFire is missing the point. According to this map, there are no "red states" and no "blue states."

Extremely interesting. I love maps. Interesting ways of dividing us up ideologically. That map of "Jesusland" vs. "United States of Canada". Hmmm....

Another map shows America divided in "Pacificstan", "RedStateistan". and "Northeastistan". Hmmm.... I don't like that suffix. It always puts me in mind of certainly Muhammedan-dominated nations such as Pakistan or Afghanistan. Whenever I see such a Muslim "-stan" or "-istan", I ALWAYS think of "Unsteadystan", where Donald Duck, Huey, Dewey, Louie, and Uncle Scrooge went to fight the Communists. I have a book by some Communists on "Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic" which has that excerpted. I also have a Politically Corrected version of that comic book which purged out all references to Communist revolution. The Communists are trying turn America into another _Unsteadystan_! Beware!

Kim du Toit drew a map dividing North America into "The Constitutional Republic of America" (nearly all of the U.S. and Canada), "The People's Soviet of Eastern America (the Southeast of Canada, the Northeast of the U.S., and Cuba), and "Nuevo Aztlan" (The West Coast of the U.S.).

My brother Dave, who voted for Kerry, noted that these county-by-county maps of Blue vs. Red show that Bush voters seem to think we vote by acreage rather than by population. An interesting idea....

I saw another such Red-Blue county map juxtaposed next to a sattelite photo of the U.S. at night. I looked at that and saw that Bush votes tend to correlate with dark skies while Kerry votes tend to correlate with light pollution. Astronomers hate light pollution and love dark skies. I wonder how many of them voted for Bush? Interesting....

Interesting synchronicities here. For, well before the election, I myself was dividing the United States for my characters.

So far, holy Dawn and her holy Negro wife Norma have 11 Blue (Conservative) states (New Mexico and Arizona, South and North Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, and Hawaii) where they have Total Commitment Marriage, including homosexual Total Commitment Marriage, and they are showing their film of "The Passion of the Christ" (Dawn as the Christ, Norma as the Queen of Heaven).

Wanda has a number of the Green (Liberal) states, including Nevada, where prostitution and adultery are legal, and also Northeastern states from Massachusetts even into Washington, D.C. and centering on her native New York City, where she is spreading atheism through her 13-volume study on "The Physics of Evolution".

At least 3 states (Alabama, Mississippi, and Oklahoma) are Orange (Communist), for they have ratified calls for a Constitutional Convention to outlaw all homosexual relations (and who knows what elsr?). Texas, Kansas, and Nebraska are sharply divided.

Meanwhile, and fortunately, good old Mr. Bricker has got Republican leaders in 29 states in the West, Midwest, and North to support the Constitution Conservation Amendment to oppose that.

In their booklet and filmstrip "Communism All Over The Map", tracing the history of the human race from the creation of the first men and women at the source of the Nile and the rise of the Holy Myth of Osiris and Isis in the Holy Land, and then the spread of Communism from Akhenaton's brief monotheistic revolution during the New Kingdom (Empire), Dawn and Norma show that the further East you go, generally the more Communist influence, while the further West you go, generally the more free from Communism. Thus, Asia, centering on Maoist China, is almost completely Communist. Europe and Africa together constitute "the West". The New World is less Communist still, more free and holy. Within the United States, the further East, the more Communist, the further West the more free and holy. Hawaii, the Western Islands, are now the holiest of all. By the way, Dawn and Norma use the Mercator map.

That ties in with the spectrumological spatial symbolisms in Dawn's own story which she wrote long ago, "The Red Ring and the Blue Ring", in which Queen Catherine of the West is captured by the Queens of the North and of the South, swims to the Island of the Far West, wins the Red and Blue Rings, stamps out the Green Flower, wipes out Stolin and his Ant-Armies of the East, and builds her Towers to the Stars.

Ideological map analyses by a fantasy-based anti-communitarian.

According to the county map I captured, there are only three 'true' blue states: MA, RI, and VT.

Even the Peoples Republic of Connecticut has one red county.

This map is quite extraordinary.

That is an extraordinary 3-dimensional map. At first, seeing how Chicago shot up so high, I thought they were correlating votes to the heights of buildings (the Sears Tower). Beautiful blues and reds. I love colors. Colors I do love. Colors, colors, colors, colors.

Dawn's blue and red. Norma's red and blue. Wanda's green and purple.