Map I find comforting

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

From ESRI. Look at all that blue on the Mississippi's floodplain!

[neohippie]

1. Blue in NC

Hey Now!

There is even more Blue in NC than I expected. Cool map!

[liberalmuse]

2. I like it!

I would just like to see a map that magnified or shrunk blue/red areas according to population. The vertical thing is good, but it isn't dramatic enough to get across that these tiny little blue areas aren't so tiny if you magnify them based on population.

Though I'm a geographer, I don't have access to the ESRI software I used to before our company went under. I also don't have autocad or any good stuff on my computer here at home. If anyone could do this, it would be fantastic!

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

24. I'm about to get my doctorate in geography

PM me if you want to talk shop!

[silverpatronus]

37. found via a link on livejournal...

the source was hosted on angelfire which doesn't allow hotlinking so i saved and rehosted.

[Indiana_Dem]

3. Let's see.....where do i want to go and live......

Oregon looks nice!!!:-) An improvement over Indiana!

[neebob]

4. Hi from the blue triangularish county in the lower left corner of CO

Ask me if I miss living on that big red spike in Utah. Yesterday I started to make lemonade out of my lemons by realizing that if worse comes to worst, I can count on 60 percent of my neighbors to do the right thing or at least be rational - in sharp contrast to that big red spike. And I realized that's really important to me, and I'm never going back to that icky red spiky place.

[likesmountains 52]

7. hey me too!

[neebob]

9. Are you from the red spike, too, or just live in the blue place?

[likesmountains 52]

10. always in Colorado,

but only 27 years in the blue triangle

[Touchdown]

16. Hi from the tall blue peanut in Co!

Look at us. We're bluer than Missouri!

And what's with that blue part of Idaho???

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

21. To answer your question...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6471-2004Aug16.html

snip

KETCHUM, Idaho, Aug. 16 -- Idaho voted 67.2 percent for George W. Bush in 2000 and is sometimes called the most Republican state in the country, but idyllic Blaine County, where John F. Kerry is spending a few quiet days this week, is very much up for grabs, even if all that is at stake is pride.

Four years ago, this blue enclave in the reddest of red states was the only one of Idaho's 44 counties to vote for Al Gore, who won here by 220 votes. Bill Clinton narrowly won Blaine in 1992 and 1996, despite losing the state by large margins both times.

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

28. Hi--blue part of CA abutting the red bluffs

Smack dab in the middle of the central valley. Everything west of me is blue, Sacramento just east is blue but only about an inch deep and it juts out into the red. Eastern California counties have the scary distinction of being both red and populous and contiguous... so much for my comfort!

[sandnsea]

5. Escape route

Apparently Democrats know they need to live near the water for quick escape.

[SoCalDem]

6. My thoughts too... and we apparently like borders too

make a run for the border?? chalupa, anyone?

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

13. Think positive!

We got 'em surrounded!

[bigwillq]

8. This is such a cool map!

My state (CT) is all blue except for the northwest corner. Lots of farmers up there. They pray to their chickens I think.

[mreilly]

11. Check out the big red splotch in the northern center of Maine!

This is hilarious - NOBODY LIVES THERE! It's all parks and mountains and woods. Maybe they dug up one or two drunk crazy old beaver trappers who stumbled into the voting booth and picked "BUSH" because they thought they were picking the lineup for a peep show.

Other than that and a couple of insignificant red smears in Vermont/New Hampshire/Connecticut, the rest of New England is blue. God, how I love it here.

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

17. Shh!

Don't make me laugh, someone's sleeping in the next room!

[Duncan Grant]

12. Bookmarked for future reference.

Great post, thanks! :thumbsup: :kick:

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

15. Is that the Castro zip code?

My parents' apartment in the Haight (owner move-in evicted last year, alas) was in 94117.

Abutting dots of paisley and rainbow on the blue transamerica pyramid that is SF...

[Duncan Grant]

32. Yes, it's the Castro.

I was completely unfamiliar with forums like DU when I registered; hence the long name. I can never drink and post - it's too difficult to sign on with a name like mine. Perhaps that's worked out for the best afterall. :7

Viva San Francisco! :hi:

[Chili]

14. me too - thank you so much for posting it!

...and Montana just elected a Democratic governor, right? I'm liking that!

[flygal]

27. Yes indeedy!! And our state leg went dem too! Senate still counting.

[Lilli]

18. Here is another good one from Princeton

"...Of course, blue is for the democrats, red is for the republicans, and green is for all other. Each county's color is a mix of these three color components in proportion to the results for that county.

Counties shown in black represent either missing election data or a mismatch between the US Census data and the USA Today data. For example, the New England states' election return data is given for each municipality and/or district rather than for each county. Hence, it couldn't be easily matched with the county boundaries....






http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/JAVA/election2004/

[SoCalDem]

25. Corresponds nicely with THIS picture.. Blue means PEOPLE live there

[Touchdown]

19. So who's taller..Cook or Los Angeles?

I'd go for Cook County (That's Chicago, right?) since it's off your picture, but LA is awfully tall!

[GregD]

20. See the blue spot at the bottom of Nevada?

That's Clark County where the ballot ripoff operation was activated.

[TXDemGal]

22. See that blue spot in the middle of Texas?

That's where I am. A majority of Dem voters surrounded by flaming wingnuts.

[progressivedancer]

23. WOW

Thank God for Chicago, Illinois has been saved.

[AnnitaR]

26. I'm from East Tennessee and it depresses the hell out of me!

Living in the land of the ignorant. You can talk and talk and they hear nothing.

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

31. Sorry to depress you Annita!

See number 28 above--some closer examination gave me "that sinking feeling", and I'm in California!

[Tweed]

29. What's that strip of blue in Alabama and why is still Democrat?

We must be doing a great job there. Is there a river along that strip?

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

30. You found the remains of the "Black Belt"

I teach about it in intro to cultural geography classes. MLK's the fellow who did the "great job".

Some info and a historic map here:

http://www.as.ua.edu/amstud/hhistory.htm

[Tweed]

34. Thank you, this helps out ALOT!

[bluedonkey]

33. Louisiana Blue

We elected Melvin "Kip" Holden as our Major,beating Bobby SOB Simpson!He's the first black Major since reconstruction.
There is hope!
Just think of the blue as the antibiotic that will eat away on the red 'infection'!

[Tweed]

35. What's a Major?

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

36. I love to think of y'all

Having a brain in your head to go with that pretty accent.