How purple is your state?

[RalphTheCow]

I thought this was interesting. My wife always said that maps overrepresent the redness of the country and especially the countryside by showing only the red or blue majority, not the degree of it.

OFF THE WALL: Red, Blue & Purple: The Visuality of the Electoral Map

During the weeklong Election Day, The New York Times electoral map was permanently open as a tab on my computer. I stared and refreshed. Eventually, the white-outlined states turned to gray as votes began reporting, and then turned to red or blue, or the ever-exciting red or blue stripe to...

thehoya.com

So the most polarized red states are WV, WY, OK, and to a lesser extent ID and a few others. Blue are VT and MA. No surprises there. Living in NJ, I realize it is just bluish purple, not deep blue by any means.

 

[Stokely]

Yeah those typical maps are islands of blue surrounded by rube red. My county was one of the few blue ones in 2020 but the reality was it barely went for Biden. It also is fairly populated compared to the more rural ones, so it's very misleading to see a huge swathe of red and a tiny patch of blue, when the blue patch might have way more people in it.

 

[VashHT]

Here in IL everything outside of Chicago and some of the northern suburbs are pretty red. Those areas are mostly corn fields though so the state is solidly blue.

 

[Fenixgoon]

area != people

that's why all those maps look so skewed



when this is what it really looks like (ignoring the effects of the EC of course)

 

[purbeast0]

I'm in MD near DC and VA so it's super blue around here.

But when I go on fishing trips like 40 mins away in redneck areas, you get into some deep red parts of the state, with Trump flags everywhere.

 

[BoomerD]

More accurately…

 

[Moonbeam]

I think that rural red is the result of city blue stupidity. The whole country should be blue. The force that drives political alignment, in my opinion, is herd mentality, a need to group up to stave off emotional threat in the form of feeling put upon and disrespected. Look how the rural red are referred to as rubs, backward ignorant people who don't understand their own self interest. Capitalism with the single aim of profit has ruined rural life by competition to produce the cheapest food, to pay the least one can for the raw materials and adding empty value to it. How many potatoes are in a 5 dollar bag and now much was the farmer paid. Pretty much nothing, right, as a small farmer won't even be the source of the bag.

Robots will increasingly do the farming to produce a diet for the American people that will insure we all die early. Who are the stupid rubes? I think we should have farm city co-operatives, you know, a more socialized form of farming. I remember when tomatoes would spoil pretty quickly but had wonderful taste. Now you can buy perfect round spheres of red tasteless pulp that can sit on the shelf for a month. Day by day, year by year, life becomes more and more meaningless, one fucked up system that manufactures suicide and depression.

 

[nickqt]

Outside of the cities in Georgia, it's basically Mississippi.

 

[dank69]

More accurately…


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Even more accurately:

 

[Amused]

Even more accurately:

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In motion. (this is 2016 results. That big red dot over AZ turned blue in 2020)

 

[Amused]

I'm in CA. The 5th bluest state.

 

[Brainonska511]

Massachusetts is very blue, but the state government can be quite sclerotic. The legislature is completely dysfunctional - either blaming failure to pass laws on the other house, or having popular things mysteriously stripped out during the end of the year passage of bills where a few people control all that comes to the floor and what is in them.

 

[MrSquished]

I'm in MD near DC and VA so it's super blue around here.

But when I go on fishing trips like 40 mins away in redneck areas, you get into some deep red parts of the state, with Trump flags everywhere.

Even these days with the Trump flags?

 

[brycejones]

Even these days with the Trump flags?

Frankly even more so in my area. More since Biden dropped out.

 

[BoomerD]

Frankly even more so in my area. More since Biden dropped out.

Yeah, Trump flags have gotten new life since “that colored woman” became the candidate.

 

[Meghan54]

Outside of the cities in Georgia, it's basically Mississippi.

GA has better roads than Mississippi. A bit more open minded and the Confederate battle flags are slowly disappearing. More business.

 

[nickqt]

GA has better roads than Mississippi. A bit more open minded and the Confederate battle flags are slowly disappearing. More business.

I'm talking about the politics. Georgia is home to Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Georgia has better roads and more business due to the big cities, not to mention a whole lot more people=tax revenue.

It's definitely a purple state in terms of the last couple of elections. Literally just a few thousand votes from going for Trump and 2 Republican Senators back in 2020.

 

[purbeast0]

Even these days with the Trump flags?

Good question. I didn't go on a charter trip this summer so didn't make my way to those areas.

 

[fskimospy]

I thought this was interesting. My wife always said that maps overrepresent the redness of the country and especially the countryside by showing only the red or blue majority, not the degree of it.

OFF THE WALL: Red, Blue & Purple: The Visuality of the Electoral Map

During the weeklong Election Day, The New York Times electoral map was permanently open as a tab on my computer. I stared and refreshed. Eventually, the white-outlined states turned to gray as votes began reporting, and then turned to red or blue, or the ever-exciting red or blue stripe to...

thehoya.com

So the most polarized red states are WV, WY, OK, and to a lesser extent ID and a few others. Blue are VT and MA. No surprises there. Living in NJ, I realize it is just bluish purple, not deep blue by any means.

I guess a this depends on how you define red, blue, and purple. For example Kansas would then be considered more purple than New Jersey but I don’t think anyone thinks of Kansas that way.

 

[Meghan54]

I'm talking about the politics. Georgia is home to Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Georgia has better roads and more business due to the big cities, not to mention a whole lot more people=tax revenue.

It's definitely a purple state in terms of the last couple of elections. Literally just a few thousand votes from going for Trump and 2 Republican Senators back in 2020.

I live in GA. I understand the politics here maybe a bit better than others posting. 🙂

 

[Stokely]

Frankly even more so in my area. More since Biden dropped out.

Trump banners, stickers and flags have never really completely gone away here in central FL since 2016.

They outnumber any Democrat candidate sighting by 1000:1 and that's being charitable. Yet people do vote Democrat, they just don't feel the need to holler and hoot about it. Plus, I don't want my car keyed so no bumper stickers. I don't want to get shot (or at least in fights) so no shirt, certainly not at the joints where my band plays

 

[nOOky]

Plenty of Trump signs popping up here in SW Wisconsin. The local Democratic office was taken by surprise and it takes time to make the new Harris/Walz ones apparently.

 

[MrPickins]

I traveled through coastal South TX this weekend and saw plenty of new looking flags, even a large Trump/Vance banner and a green Farmers for Trump flag.

There is still plenty of kool-aid being mixed.

 

[Indus]

I saw a Trump flag pop close to my Italian Restaurant.

Was tempted to demolish it but then thought better.. let him demonstrate in NYC what an idiot he is!

 

[MtnMan]

Actually, my state, NC, just turned purple. Latest poll shows it 46% - 46%. Only a few days earlier, it was clearly red (Trump +4%). Of the swing states, NC was considered safe for Trump when it was Biden vs. Trump.

The best poll in the state is for governor, which is 46% for the Democrat Stein, vs 36% for republican Robinson. Robinson, a black man that says women shouldn't have the right to vote, and that MLK was an inferior pastor and a communist. He also called the civil rights movement “crap”

And this is the best the republicans could find to run.

Footnote: he is the current Lt. Governor of the state, and part of the reason the current governor, Roy Cooper, withdrew his name as the possible VP choice. He didn't want to leave the state, so this fool could pull stunts as the "acting governor" when Cooper was not physically in the state.