Reply #6: It's not a mindblower. [View All]

It's also inaccurate. Looking at florida, I see Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties in gray. They were solid blue. As a matter of fact, Broward voted TWO TO ONE for Kerry (Go Broward - Thanks, Randi!)

Also keep in mind that huge swaths of that red have only 5~100 people per square mile.

I live in San Francisco, which is about 6 miles by 6 miles square with about a million people, more than live in the entire state of Wyoming which is like 500 miles across.

That's why the popular vote was much closer than this map appears. People who live in and around cities (ie people who interact with all different kinds of people on a daily basis and actually have some understannding of the world around them) voted democrat. People in rural areas and some suburbs (who live in a mostly white bubble and view both the cities and the outside world mostly through the prism of television) voted for Bush.