Bush Country (County-by-County Map)

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Cindy the "deep valley" is everything from the Gulf Coast to the Big Bend. We won, one county and lost half a dozen. When I made the statement I didn't intend to look up every county to ID it, I was pointing out the areas we lost.

[CindyDawg]

No, Texas, actually. That's just the way we talk around here:') Do you see my county? It's the red tip at the very bottom of Texas.

[pgkdan]

I was born in Camden and raised in Atlantic...both blue...but for the last 25 years I've been in Virginia Beach and it's bright red!

[cubreporter]

Where at in South Jersey? Cape May County maybe?

[CindyDawg]

Go ahead. Try to rain on my parade. I have my umbrella:')

I know, looking at the big picture it's small but I would have thought it was impossible down here. It was just GW though. Everyone else went democrat. Only one Republican won that was only running against a liberal. I guess they hate those worse than republicans:')

[OrangeDaisy]

Bump for later

[trussell]

Wonderful!! Thank you!!

[womanvet]

great idea -- I want one.

(now I'll read the rest of the posts and find out where to get it...)

[itslex71]

Don't mess with Texas!

[ought-six]

My county (right next door to Cook County and Chicago) went red again. It is a well-entrenched, Republican-dominated county, although there has been an influx of Dims as they flee the crime and corruption and crappy schools of Chicago.

[ought-six]

That's Austin. A lib island in an otherwise Republican landscape.

[ought-six]

"What constitutes a landslide in the EC?"

Whenever we win.

[hophead]

"What are the gray areas for?"
they are countys not yet called for either.

[ought-six]

Cook County and Chicago alone accounted for some 75% of the Kerry vote in Illinois.

[Dog]

Salem County.

[LouisWu]

Comparing the 2000 and 2004 (so far) maps, I notice that most of the areas still gray today were blue in 2000.

I suspect that they're reluctant to admit they theyv'e gone red this time around. They're still counting, and counting again, hoping that enough counting will make it all be different somehow.

[MeekOneGOP]

Bush Country (County-by-County Map)

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my General Interest or Texas ping list!. . .don't be shy.

[international american]

Pretty doggone impressive

[floriduh voter]

What's the gray stuff meekie? Florida is almost all red.

[IonImplantGuru]

...My state, The People's Republic of Maryland, went red in 90% counties. Unfortunately the 10% Blues pulled the whole state down :-(

Hmmm, blame Baltimore I'll bet.

I figure population centers are the big contributors to the 'Islands of blue in a sea of red' phenomena... particularly if said population is comprised of sexual/ethnic minorities or it's a 'university' town.

That's why this county map looks so much more rosy than the electoral (state by state) map.