...showing voting preference by actual population density distribution.
Posted on 11/19/2004 10:02:19 AM PST by dukeman
Problem is: it's not the color of the state, it's the color of the high-population precincts. CA & NY are actually mostly red - they just suffer from tiny but intense blue areas, the urban archipelago.
No. You live on islands of greed, fear, godlessness, self-hatred, and violence. Stay there. The waters of the "red sea" are rising...
I wonder if anyone has done a color map using precincts instead of counties. I've seen that PURPLE monster that shows shades of red-blue depending on the percentages of the counties.....
How the heck is it "sharing" when my tax money is taken from me essentially under threat of legal action? Now, I think it's necessary that government levy some taxes, it couldn't function on donations alone. But don't call it sharing. By the way the article's a lot easier to swallow if you read it as a satire rather than a serious piece (if this guy's serious he needs meds, stat.) I can't believe how he complains about some states actually spending federal transportation money on building roads -- the horror! Darned metrosexuals.
liberalism is a cancer that metastasizes.......
...showing voting preference by actual population density distribution.
Muggers believe in "sharing" too.
I am waiting for the next season of "The Simple Life" to come out starring Hillary & Pelosi red stating and gettin teh knows dem simple folks. Umm.. Picture above is not Hillary and Nancy.
About 9 months ago I was sitting in the cafeteria at a ski area long popular with the elites of San Francisco [hint, M-I-C...K-E-Y]. An interesting conversation was happening down the table from me and my wife. There were three Boomer men discussing W using less than flattering terminology. So naturally my evesdropping instinct kicked in. The hatred and vitriol was immense. The three turned out to be lawyers. It was apparent to me that these three lived their lives in San Francisco, and in mini islands of "their culture" such as that ski area. They had no interest in any of the rural communities which one finds when one ventures away from the Interstate Highway that they had taken to get to the ski area. More likely than not, they had never, in their many years of living in San Francisco, attempted to do any such venturing. They more likely than not had no relatives or friends living in rural areas or even in some of the cities of the inland USA.
On a different but related note, we have an acquaintance who, although a native Californian, got an MBA at a famous NYC business school named after a godess. Upon getting his piece of paper he did the working-at-all-hours investment banker thing and eventually ended up after that slog in CFO land. However, his first C level assignment was not on either coast but in a state in the interior Western US. At his age, still not too old, but running out of time, to a degree, in terms of settling down, that assignment would have been a real boon to doing so. One can live like a king in that state, working as a CFO. But no, he ended up taking a lesser position, after less than one year, because being a complete metrosexual, and often, I might add, mistakenly thought to be a homosexual, he simply could never gain even a modicum of social comfort in the interior Western city.
These are the real people of the festering blue blisters.
Imfamous blue blisters in Red States: Las Vegas, Tucson, Austin ... LOL
Liberalism is the political philosophy of cultural suicide. It's a twisted amalgam of mental illness and evil. Thank you for showing us your true self.
I wonder how the highly educated of the Urban Archipelago plan to feed themselves or extract minerals to warm their homes without the assistance of Red America
SOYLENT GREEN
Wow...good pic. I'm proud to be in that dark red blotch next to innards of Chicago.
Yea, that's it homies.. Hip Hop's gonna get you the white house...
There are plenty of us who vote "red" that could never live in a truly "red" area.
Given the choice between NYC and upstate NY or LA and the interior of CA, I'd pick NYC and LA.
Wouldn't that be WONDERFUL? I would love it--let these liberal/commie panty wastes secede from the Union. The rest of us (the citizens of Jesusland) would be much better off without them.
The key is, you neither want to force your urbanism on truly red areas nor are you somehow threatened by or angry at people who live in truly red areas. As for myself, I, like you, presently have somewhat the city slicker life (ableit, only barely, as I am literally at the outskirts of the SF Bay urbanized area), although, unlike you, I could, in a flash, move into rural mode with no issues whatever. I am equally comfortable in both environments.
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