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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 ...
The people who live in downtown Tallahassee sucking off the state government’s teat and federal “poverty” (money-house) programs appear to be the ones turning it blue.
That was their idea, propagated by their, well, propagandists in the LieStreamMedia.
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.IOW, the Demagogic Party is racist.
Bkmk.
Good map!
I tend to agree. For some reason I remember the colors the other way around way back when and it seems like the switch was only recently made. I would guess the switch happened some time after the limousine 'Liberal' moniker came into fashion and the Left relabeled themselves 'Progressives' again.
Thomas Jefferson was a farmer, a gentleman farmer so he was aware of this
Looks like that little southern corner of AZ may turn red now too.
“This map, from a previous election, gives you a feel for the problem.”
Red areas stop feeding blue areas. Problem solved.
Ah yes, because there is a very low population, but each state gets at least one seat.
Red areas stop feeding blue areas. Problem solved.
“Farmers. Because SOMEBODY has to feed you people.”
You are 100% right, red and communism have been together for almost a century and the leftist media are deliberately using this for their agenda! Now if we could get Fox News to use these colors on their maps it would drive the left mad. Just looking at this map brings my stress down with hope that someday it would be a reality. Thanks for posting.
Redundant.
Thank you ! I’m sick of looking at Communism identified as GOP. Democrats are the REDS.
I would argue that the UK and some of western Europe would be blue and “disputed” would be CALIPHATE.
I very much doubt many of South and Central America would ally with the US or North America.
On the contrary, South and Central America have always been allied with the US and North America.
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