A more accurate "Purple America"

Published on November 12, 2004 By SOirresistible In Politics

I've gone map CRAZY. Purple, 3-dimensional, population density...

There was a Purple America posted below, but it very, very few counties that were solidly blue or red, I know liberals like to be nuanced, but somethings, things just ARE black and white (or red and blue), I think we can all agree that is largely inaccurate because it gives the impression we're all living amongst each other, when really, Long Island is NOT the exact same shade of purple as Iowa City. I do think the USA Today should've used a different margin than just a plurality though. Here is a map that's a great middle ground, splitting the counties red/blue if they are over 70% for one candidate (which many were), from the Univ of Mich:

As for the urban/rural myth that Democrats are cultured, urban dwellers and Republicans are either rural hicks or ignorant, greedy suburbanites:

And this is the most revealing map, I think. Though Bush did win urban areas, SO many of Kerry's votes came from primarily LA, Chicago, and NYC:
Link (link because the picture is huge).

I have a ton of maps, I'm like a young Karl Rove (only, female and better looking) (I hope, anyways!).

I have maps showing frequency of prevlence of unmarried gay/straight couples living together (concentrated most in the blue states, no surprise there), maps of prevelence of divorce frequency (even throughout, but very heavy increase in LA & NYC - but half of those can probably be attributed to Britney and J.Lo), which areas of whites are most segregated from minorities (SURPRISE - uber-liberal Bostonians are the LEAST likely out of all US urban dwellers to encounter an Asian, Black, Hispanic, or mixed-race person, Boston beat out blue Michigan cities only because though Michigan is highly segregated, Hispanics are slightly more integrated). I guess it's easy to preach diversity tolerance when you're the city that's most segregated from all other races. The maps are on Questia & Highbeam (subscription-only academic sources), but I can save them and post them here later.

I'm not out to prove anything except that I am a Geo-Demographics nerd. I'm sure if I were going to play the liberal blame game of profiling gun-totin, gay marriage-fearing, abortion-opposing voters, I could present a far harsher profile of Democratic voters.

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