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Ghostiger,Nov 6 2004, 06:04 PM Wrote:I knew Kerry had the metro area and Bush had the rural areas, but its kind of shocking when you see it laid out. I didnt realize that Bush carried almost all the rural areas in blue states.
Ignore the text please some conservtive dimwit type was appearently impressed by ate difference in area.
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It's not really any different than the
2000 election map. Though keep in mind that Dave has the colors reversed from what the news media uses this year. And you can put up
the 2004 map as well. It's fun to just swap back and forth between them. Sure Bush did have more support this year, the blue on Dave's maps got darker in some spots, but again, this isn't really all that different than 2000 was.
I just wish I could find his larger versions of the maps. But you can just go here:
http://uselectionatlas.org/ to get all the detials you want on past elections. He should have county results back to 1980 I think. Though you might have to register to see them all.
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Ghostiger,Nov 6 2004, 06:04 PM Wrote:I knew Kerry had the metro area and Bush had the rural areas, but its kind of shocking when you see it laid out. I didnt realize that Bush carried almost all the rural areas in blue states.
Ignore the text please some conservtive dimwit type was appearently impressed by ate difference in area.
http://mrrobotto.zftp.com/images/bush_county.bmp
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When you consider that most "city" areas have far more people than country areas, it makes more sense.
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Oh I know that.
I thought it was telling about the American people in how in how sharp the difference is between cities and rural area.
We sometimes think in terms or red and blue states, but its not a matter of states just how big the cites are in your states.
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Not that your post is wrong, but I don't really like it when people talk about "it's just the cities in the states, not the whole state". Technically it's true, but assuming the cities are all taken out of the states, where do their votes get counted? The city areas have a huge chink of people in the country, more than half I think, and in many "blue" states, most of the population is in cities, so you could just as easily say "except for the rural areas, these states mostly vote democrats".
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Its not too shocking that rural area's are conservative, and cities are more liberal. Seeing that the United States is a lot of open space for the population, its expected. Most 'Liberal States' did not go to Kerry by huge margins, the same as most 'Conservative States' did not go to Bush by huge margins. The votes for these had to of come from somewhere.
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