Posted on 11/13/2014 1:39:51 PM PST by right-wing agnostic
If youre a political junkie or at least if youre a conservative political junkie youve probably seen the map. Its a map of the United States showing the congressional districts won by Republicans in red and those won by Democrats in blue.
It looks almost entirely red, except for some pinpoints of blue in major metropolitan areas and a few blue blotches here and there in Minnesota, northern New Mexico and Arizona, western New England, along the Pacific Coast.
Of course its misleading. Congressional districts are of basically equal population, and Democrats tend to roll up big margins in densely populated areas. So while voters have elected at least 244 Republican congressmen and probably will end up with at least 247 more than in any election since 1928 the map overstates their dominance.
But it does tell us something about the geographic and cultural isolation of the core groups of the Democratic Party: gentry liberals and blacks.
These were the two groups gathered together when Barack Obama had the opportunity to draw the new lines of his state Senate district after the 2000 census. He combined the heavily black South Side of Chicago with Gold Coast gentry liberals north of the Loop.
Together, they provided him with an overwhelmingly Democratic voter base and with access to the upper financial and intellectual reaches of the Democratic Party and, in short time, the presidency of the United States.
But blacks and gentry liberals by themselves are not a national majority, as the map suggests. And policies designed to appeal to the Obama Democratic base may be repelling other, larger segments of the electorate. Consider the racial groups surveyed by contemporary political analysts.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
I agree that the colors should be switched. Throughout most of the world, blue represents the right and red represents the left.
Most people think it was a news network that did it and everyone else just followed along.
In my defense, I did say "if we find ourselves at war".
I am not eager to go to war with them, but if they won't leave us alone, or if THEY start it...
Sure does give new meaning to the word “spike”...
All the major urban areas of Texas are still trending liberal...They were trying hard to turn the whole state “blue”...
Spent a ton of money...Glad it failed, and they wasted that cashola...
Just wait till the amnesty thing gets thru...That will tip the balance for sure...
You’ll never see another conservative president in the WH after that...
- MSM are players and are "on team"
- Symbolism of the colors shows sensitivity (and mens rea) among MSM bonzes w/r/t descriptors like "Red" and "Pink" being used about their favorite Marxist-Leninist party
- Colors reveal both team play and Journolisting.
If by any chance a conservative gets into the White House, I want him to get out his "now that's a knoife!" knife -- I incline toward Arkansas toothpick, myself, since it was Slick's State that he bamboozled for years while dishonoring their women -- and just go after the MSM's licenses, finances, taxes, and everything, and just rip them up the middle like a meatpacker in a dressing race, and tell everybody what he's doing and why ....... "Got a prollem wid dat?"
Let's see how they like sauce for the gander.
I want to see Katie "Choo Choo" Couric living in a box.
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