Bush Country 2004: U.S. Map of the Bush Vote by Counties

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[StJacques]

Well I've done a search of the posts here at FreeRepublic to see if this has been posted already and I found nothing, so I want to put it up for everyone to see.

Take a look at the map of the U.S. showing which counties returned a majority for Bush this past Tuesday:





I think this puts a real exclamation point on the Bush victory. There is more to the Bush margin than votes alone, not that the 51% - 48% split is insignificant by any means. There is also geography. What does this map show? It looks to me like Bush carried counties whose total geographical area accounts for 85% or more of the total land mass of the continental United States.

I always liked geography.

[FreedomCalls]

However cornfields and cacti don't vote: people do.

All the maps are doing is taking the numbers and spreading them out over the rural areas or concentrating them in the urban ones. Don't read too much into it either way. The bottom line is the more people voted for Bush (59,459,765) than Kerry (55,949,407) no matter if you spread them out in the red states or bunch them up in the blue states on a map. No matter what you do it will show an almost even divide with Bush ultimately on the winning side.

[JRios1968]

Beautiful!!!

[Poser]

I never get tired of looking at that.

Anybody making t-shirts yet?

[FITZ]

I don't think 51% to 49% is a reason to be sure -- and those blue areas to me look like a malignancy --- of Communism. That map shows that the less densely populated areas of the country are filled with more self-reliant people --- but with the population doubling every 50 years or less --- the future doesn't look so good. The big urban areas are dependent on the government.

[SlowBoat407]

I saw one map that had a vertical projection based on population for each of the red and blue counties. That one was very instructional. Almost all of the blue counties were huge spikes, while most of the red counties were broad, flat areas. Made me feel good, but still made the point.

[Cultural Jihad]

. . . . but with the population doubling every 50 years or less --- the future doesn't look so good.

The Greens and the Sierra Club are against immigration for much the same reason.

[TheBattman]

BINGO! A couple of us had that discussion after church this AM - how the predominant theme of the "blue" areas was urban areas with high minority populations.

What else do these areas also have in common? A high concentration of government check drawers (public tit suckers).

[Constitution1st]

TOO GREAT!!! I just loved reading your Klamath Basin pages. I lost track of it, being from Ohio, after I left FR and the story left the front pages.

God bless Karl Rove and President Bush!

[CAPTAIN PHOTON]

What are those strange black blotches in maine, Idaho etc?

[FormerACLUmember]

Right,

Blue = Government "workers" and welfare checks.

[MHT]

Does anybody have a printable comparison of the red/blue maps of 2004 versus 2000?

[RWCon]

What this really does is to point out the evil of the
Supreme Court decision which based representation in
state senates on population. The Constitution forbade
messing with the US Senate so they attacked the states.

[RWCon]

What this really does is to point out the evil of the
Supreme Court decision which based representation in
state senates on population. The Constitution forbade
messing with the US Senate so they attacked the states.

[Flux Capacitor]

----Well I've done a search of the posts here at FreeRepublic to see if this has been posted already and I found nothing----

You're kidding.

-Dan

[King Prout]

artifacts caused by the way the votes are tabulated in those states - not strictly within county lines.

[Kewz1]

This is one graphic I haven't tired of looking at.

God bless America. Praise you, Jesus!

[King Prout]

all:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1273775/posts

3D for population adds some interesting data

[ATCNavyRetiree]

...it still made the point that we have some work to do if we want to stay happy in election 2008.

Yes, let's not get complacent...keep writing those letters, spreading the clarity of the conservative agenda! Get the word out to our youth as to the stark differences between the optimism and sucesses of conservatism versus the pessimism and failures of liberalism.

We need to ensure more youth have access to websites such as the Young America's Foundation:

http://www.yaf.org/

[HK Ball]

... takes some doing, but if you look at

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/president/

... pick a state, then find the county that contains a university, you can get an idea ... for instance Travis county in Texas (U of Texas in Austin), Clarke county in Georgia (U of Ga in Athens) voted for Kerry, both islands in a sea of Bush country .... universities, particularly state schools, have a uniformly liberal curriculum ...

... interesting, Williamson county, just North of Austin, Texas (that's Round Rock, home of Dell) went hugely for Bush, most computer people, (silicon valley, Seattle, etc), voted for Kerry ....

[ThePythonicCow]

apolgies for overloading the server

It doesn't overload the FreeRepublic server at all. This image is coming from some other server, http://www.hannity.com, in this case. Just the text comes from a FreeRepublic.com server.

Let not your heart be troubled.