Posted on 11/13/2014 1:39:51 PM PST by right-wing agnostic
If you’re a political junkie — or at least if you’re a conservative political junkie — you’ve probably seen the map. It’s a map of the United States showing the congressional districts won by Republicans in red and those won by Democrats in blue.
It looks almost entirely red, except for some pinpoints of blue in major metropolitan areas and a few blue blotches here and there — in Minnesota, northern New Mexico and Arizona, western New England, along the Pacific Coast.
Of course it’s misleading. Congressional districts are of basically equal population, and Democrats tend to roll up big margins in densely populated areas. So while voters have elected at least 244 Republican congressmen and probably will end up with at least 247 — more than in any election since 1928 — the map overstates their dominance.
But it does tell us something about the geographic and cultural isolation of the core groups of the Democratic Party: gentry liberals and blacks.
These were the two groups gathered together when Barack Obama had the opportunity to draw the new lines of his state Senate district after the 2000 census. He combined the heavily black South Side of Chicago with Gold Coast gentry liberals north of the Loop.
Together, they provided him with an overwhelmingly Democratic voter base and with access to the upper financial and intellectual reaches of the Democratic Party — and, in short time, the presidency of the United States.
But blacks and gentry liberals by themselves are not a national majority, as the map suggests. And policies designed to appeal to the Obama Democratic base may be repelling other, larger segments of the electorate. Consider the racial groups surveyed by contemporary political analysts.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
I saw the map
Gulag Archipelago
At least their population is concentrated - you know, less territory to have to annihilate if we find ourselves at war...
Seems like a possibility.
No it doesn't.
for later
It looks like all the food is in those red areas. Let the “Liberal Gentry” and “blacks” come try to take the Red Districts’ food. Of course, we know the people who won most of these districts are in on the rape of America.
When did we lose the Florida Panhandle?
bummer
Thomas Jefferson
It’s terrible how concentrations of leftist contaminate entire states like Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Colorado and Virginia.
That is an eye opener.
One comment in the article rings somewhat true, that the White turnout for Romney was a floor and not a ceiling. This could be true if they don’t nominate another Romney, Bush, McCain, Paul, or other CINO hack.
It shows the necessity for and the genius of the Connecticut compromise in establishing our bicameral Federal legislature.
The geography is great, but the historic conservative coalitions are at worst dying off or at least being out bred. Presidential elections are tough to win when you need 65 percent plus of the white vote and a higher percentage in the future. Demographics is destiny, not geography.
Until the Republicans screw up again.
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Give them a little time. Its a work in progress. ;)
It certainly does.
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