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Subject: red and blue is mostly purple Author: pa [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 11/10/04 8:19:02pm In reply to: pjk 's message, "welfare states" on 11/ 9/04 3:51:08pm I can sympathize with the folks who are aghast at the seemingly huge swath of red that separates the coasts. I even initially felt shock at what appeared to be a huge deliniation in our country and felt sympathy for geokrz and pjk out there living amongst all these redneckers....but upon thinking about it further it dawned on me that calling the red states red, calling the blue states blue is a phantasmagoria...an illusion that discounts the huge populations in the blue states (as compared to the red states) and ignores the large number of folks who voted for Kerry in the 'red' states and vice a versa the large numbers of people who voted for Bush in the 'blue' states. Reading the 'election result map' as a binary system is inacurrate....and there are some folks out there who are analyzing it with a lot more depth than the chatterers who misguidely look for high correlation between the states that voted for Bush and --"virtually every form of quantifiable social dysfunction." One such group are cartographers out the the U of Michigan : who "correct for this (illusion) by making use of a cartogram, a map in which the sizes of states have been rescaled according to their population. That is, states are drawn with a size proportional not to their sheer topographic acreage -- which has little to do with politics -- but to the number of their inhabitants, states with more people appearing larger than states with fewer, regardless of their actual area on the ground. Thus, on such a map, the state of Rhode Island, with its 1.1 million inhabitants, would appear about twice the size of Wyoming, which has half a million, even though Wyoming has 60 times the acreage of Rhode Island." for more seriously "speaking to a sense of reality" (pjk) here is the site: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/ pa [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date really fun link!! loved it - thanks (NT) krz 11/11/04 10:44:31am Re: ¡fun link! -- pjk, 11/11/04 1:15:50pm Re: ¡fun link! -- geo, 11/11/04 2:22:57pm defense spending -- pa, 11/11/04 3:14:30pm additional note -- pa, 11/11/04 3:30:46pm were you off today? -- pa, 11/11/04 7:12:19pm electric kool-aid electoral votes tjm 11/11/04 2:50:19pm red fish, blue fish; one fish, two fish krz 11/11/04 8:25:28pm the sneetches -- pa, 11/12/04 2:42:30pm