Enough with the electoral map. These are the REAL red/blue maps: [View All]

[mtnsnake]

These are 3 of the maps that people all over the country need to see, so they realize this country is more evenly divided than what right wing media would like everyone to believe....with their gross over-indulgence of that obscenely divisive red/blue electoral map they love shoving down our throats.

These are my favorite 3 maps, the first 2 taken from this website:
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/writing/2004/11/cartograms_of_t.html
Interestingly, much of the West and the Dead-Center are more red than much of the Deep South.


"Now converting this into a cartogram -- controlling for population rather than land mass -- reveals this":


However, if the right wing wants to use divisively misleading electoral maps to pat themselves on the back, then they should consider this one below, which changes the meaning of it all. I found it at the following website along with its informative article. The article, the one showing the next map, is entitled "Red States Feed at Federal Trough, Blue States Supply the Feed." The blue states pictured are the ones footing more than their fair share of the tax bill, at the benefit of the reds:
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2004/09/red_states_feed.html