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Red-Blue map of N. America from an Alberta perspective
The Western Standard ^ | Kevin Steel

Posted on 11/05/2004 5:22:37 PM PST by RebelAlbertan

Kevin Steel of the Western Standard has composed a more accurate red-blue map of the United States and Canada.

http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/2004/11/a_canadian_guid.html

It takes in to account the state by state breakdown of the US Election, and takes in to account the Conservative/ Liberal-Socialist-Separatist split in the last Canadian election.

The red is Republican (US), Conservative (Canada) The blue is Democrat (US), Liberal/ NDP (Canada) The light blue are the Quebec separatists

As an Alberta conservative, I like this map much better than the others. We out in western Canada don't get lumped in with our Kanuckistani cosuins.


TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alberta; bluestate; redstate; westerncanada
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To: Blood of Tyrants

As always, thanks for your help. It worked!


41 posted on 11/05/2004 6:11:26 PM PST by Cobra64 (Babes should wear Bullet Bras - www.BulletBras.net)
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To: RebelAlbertan

Might as well color Minnesota red. If any partition occurs we have Minneapolis surrounded and can push Duluth into the big lake.


42 posted on 11/05/2004 6:13:31 PM PST by Sawdring
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To: RebelAlbertan

Santa Claus is a Democrat?


43 posted on 11/05/2004 6:16:06 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: PureSolace
I thought Vancouver was "Seattle Lite"..... and Seattle is "San Francisco Lite"...

Haven't been up to Seattle in a while, but from what I hear even San Francisco could now be considered "Seattle Lite" on that scale. ;)

44 posted on 11/05/2004 6:16:21 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves
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To: RebelAlbertan
Okay, now, how about a projection of said map showing it as an equal-area projection? The 'great north' there looks a little out of proportion.

On a side note: has anyone seen a gradient-version of the county-level red/blue map showing the ratios of the states (i.e. landslide-Republican as pure red, landslide-dempocrap as pure blue, gradient in-between) to get a more accurate idea of how the vote really went?

This binary red/blue representation has the capability of "being more than a little misleading"...

45 posted on 11/05/2004 6:19:05 PM PST by solitas
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To: Alberta's Child

The map of Canada is based on the last federal election.

Saskatchewan did elect a socialist government, but it was almost a compete rural-urban split, and only one or two seats splitting the urban-dominated socialist NDP and the conservative Saskatchewan Party, who received 65-70% of the popular vote in much of rural Saskatchewan. In the federal election, Saskatchewan voted overwhelmigly Conservative, the exception being one Liberal.

Alberta and British Columbia currently have conservative govenrments, although Alberta's Progressive Conservative Party are not acting very conservative these days. As for BC, their provincial government is the Liberal Party, which is a misnomer, as they are a conservative party.

Northern British Columbia has a large native population that voted either NDP or Liberal (I'm not sure) last federal election, that's why it is blue.

Yukon and the Territories only have a handful of seats, and they usually go Liberal as everyone up there is working for the government in one form or another.


46 posted on 11/05/2004 6:19:44 PM PST by RebelAlbertan
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To: Tamsey

Just the coast and the big cities in Kalifornia.


47 posted on 11/05/2004 6:19:47 PM PST by mad_as_he$$ (Never corner anything meaner than you. NSDQ, De Opresso Liber.)
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To: Bob J

Wow. The gif posted in this direction resembles a politics Rorshak test: See the red lady? Tip of her nose is pointing into Canda, Florida is her hair comb. She looks very content bundled in a blanket smiling towards the north. Alaska are her feet snuggled in lambs wool slippers. :)


48 posted on 11/05/2004 6:25:25 PM PST by Alia
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To: Alia

I kinda thought it looked a big menacing blue claw trying to grab all of North America.

I think we need to amputate a few fingers.


49 posted on 11/05/2004 6:27:10 PM PST by RebelAlbertan
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To: RebelAlbertan

Yeah, it's a crying shame for you folks up there. Apparently, we are all doomed to having foreign opinion of us dictated by the Eastern Establishment Press. I must put a mea culpa here: I did not know better until I started spending time in the American West.

Yeah, you've even got Cowboys competing in the rodeos down here.

Now for the big question: Do the European countries have a red/blue thing going on as well? One cannot help but wonder.


50 posted on 11/05/2004 6:34:23 PM PST by AZ_Cowboy
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To: RebelAlbertan

I'm liking it a lot, so when can we trade? :)


51 posted on 11/05/2004 6:37:51 PM PST by battousai (HM King Kerry's Royal Decree: Peasants cannot earn more than $200K per year!)
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To: konaice
Someone who knows where Alaska is Actually located!!!!

Yeah, I'm confused now. Here I though Alaska was a large island off the coast of Baja California.

52 posted on 11/05/2004 7:04:39 PM PST by MCH
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To: Alia

Funny, I see a big open mouthed figure looking right, with Michigan as the eyebrow, Illinois the nose, and the west coast the jaw.


53 posted on 11/05/2004 7:10:07 PM PST by Bob J (Rightalk.com...coming soon!)
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To: RebelAlbertan

Looks OK by me. Still, I say we kick the "fellow travelers" out of the left coast. I like the sunsets there.


54 posted on 11/05/2004 7:13:31 PM PST by Cooltouch
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To: RebelAlbertan

Someone should do a count of the congressional districts that went red vs blue. If the electoral college was allocated by CD rather than winner take all by state W would probably won 400-140.

By the way I would welcome our Canadian cousins.


55 posted on 11/05/2004 7:16:06 PM PST by redangus
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To: RebelAlbertan

I see it! You remember that nasty BLUE MEANIE fist in the cartoon "yellow submarine"? I agree with you on amputating a few fingers...


56 posted on 11/05/2004 7:26:07 PM PST by Alia
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To: Bob J

I see it. It looks angry. That "eye" looks very intense and furious. brrrr!


57 posted on 11/05/2004 7:28:34 PM PST by Alia
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To: kingattax
"I say,lets trade"

Plus we will throw in The Left Coast of the US to boot.

58 posted on 11/05/2004 7:32:41 PM PST by TYVets
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To: TYVets

roger that


59 posted on 11/05/2004 7:34:08 PM PST by kingattax
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To: konaice

LOL!


60 posted on 11/05/2004 7:47:27 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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