“But as a whole, the map is meaningless.”
Or- it means something, but there is no way to have clarity about what that is. And maybe that is the point. The map is an “empty vessel” into which anything useful to advance the Liberal Agenda can be poured and then used to advantage.
It’s a map of historically independent people whose moral code held going on government assistance to be a shameful thing being driven into the ground, in comparison to historically dependent people or those who have given in being subsidized. Punishment and reward, from those who have always meted out such things when in control.