Talk:Blue state

Could we put up a copy of the "US of Canada/Jesusland" picture to illustrate that, or would that be too offensive to real Christians? Researcher 09:09, 2 September 2008 (EDT)


 * It would be offensive to non-Christians who live in the red states. Use the 1988 map instead, it's a good thing to remind those smarmy latte-drinking Volvo-driving coastalites from California, New Jersey, Vermont etc. that their uppity enlightened state is only a very recent development and us hicks in the likes of West Virginia and Iowa were more progressive than they were back when it really mattered.  Or - heh - the 1976 map, even better.  On a less snarky note, this "red state" "blue state" stuff is a ridiculous invention of the media that will immediately cease to be relevant sometime in early November 2008.  Red state and blue state should get articles only if those articles are for the purpose of debunking those ideas for the crank notions they are. Secret Squirrel 09:37, 2 September 2008 (EDT)
 * I agree... I preferred the "purple state" map, and one that broke out all the electoral districts (or was it counties? yes, it was), and colored them red or blue, with a 3D effect showing how many votes were in that county.  So Texas was a big red swath with little blue spikes going sky-high at some cities like Austin.  ħ uman  21:14, 2 September 2008 (EDT)
 * Well on the purple state map the bluest of the blue are a swath across the middle of the rural deep south cutting through the Carolinas, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and up into Arkansas; rural northern New Mexico; rural southern South Dakota; rural northeast Minnesota in da North Woods/Duluth area; and rural far southern Texas. You know, those places where ignorant hicks stubbornly cling to guns and religion.  And, um, Massachusetts, the District of Columbia, and the San Francisco Bay area.  Oh well, can't win 'em all - unfortunately we have to let some coastal urban literati into our big tent.  Sigh...  Still, the 1976 map is the best.  I'd love to see someone try to justify "Jesusland" for the red states given the entire Bible Belt went for the Democrat while the enlightened bastions of proper civilized society like California, Connecticut, New Jersey and Illinois all went for the Republican. Secret Squirrel 22:53, 5 September 2008 (EDT)
 * Re, your last sentence, yeah, it would be awesome to put together an anigif showing the electoral results since, let's say, there were fifty states.  ħ uman  23:47, 5 September 2008 (EDT)
 * Wikipedia has maps for all of the presidential elections. There's another site that tries to (Andrew Sullivan recently linked to them), but they've been crashing a lot.  I'd like to see, though, one of the old Whig/Democrat maps, personally... Researcher 22:04, 4 October 2008 (EDT)