So, CA and NY wanna stay blue? Fine with me. And I hope that the blue-zoners living in red-states, just pack up and move to the blue states. But for now, the pockets of insanity are being quarantined to the coastlines. This is sound strategy.
Now before anyone gets on their highhorse -- incoming ballistics from ships or from hostile countries would more than likely hit coastal zones. These can be readily defended if the inner states (flyover country) is ready for the drill. But if blue pockets remain sturdy in the mid-states, this creates a multiple-tiered need for national defense. My two cents.
"incoming ballistics"
I've noticed that too. If Kerry is elected and plays into the weakness of "static defenses", the most likely victims of an AQ attack will be large metropolitan centers: Boston, New York, Los Angeles, etc.
No in fact if you look at 2000 by county you find that only concentrated parts of CA and NY are blue, by area even these states are red FYI, has somebody got that county by county map from 2000????
I think I'll stay in California and continue volunteering to help make it red. Let me see... 2 years till the next senatorial elections, another 2 years till the next presidential elections. Lots of work to do! It won't be boring... :-)