Avoid The Red Districts When Traveling.

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This Newsweek map is hugely interesting. The red districts have voted Republican 7% or more than they did in 2004. We must assume that this extra zeal came from a combination of the following factors: distrust of Obama, distrust of the Democrats, love of McCain, love of Palin. Now we know that McCain was never a beloved Republican. Sarah did much better with the uneducated. Yet, since much of the Republican message was to paint Obama as a potential terrorist in disguise and the Democrats as the 'loonie socialist liberals, we can safely assume that the message was well received in those Appalachian rural districts that have nothing to fear but fear itself...and little knowledge to counter the outrageous assumptions they have been bombarded with. This is Rush Limbaugh territory.

By the same token the dark blue areas denote a violent rejection of this message as seen in ALL cities with a college or a library. Upstate New York,Vermont and New Hampshire being close to Canada do not fear socialism so much. Many of them get their kicks in Montreal and most of them buy their pills in Canada. By the same token most coasts have more contacts with the outside world, Europe and Asia. How could they fall for the simplistic xenophobic messages of the last Republican campaign. An oddity, the 'Cajun' districts are red, although coastal to the gulf of Mexico. However this quaint people travel very little and many harbor fears that black people have secret gun caches and are preparing a revolution against the white man. I know for having lived there for a few years. Arkansas has the reddest districts of all, a place where trillions of chickens are slaughtered each year. Could it be that these simple folks fear terrorists the most? a little chickenshit at heart, maybe? Strange enough that these are dirt poor districts voting for the Grand Ole Party of fat cats.

Or is it that the Republican thinking heads have painted themselves into a corner, the white trash dumpster of America. If you are intelligent, black, or liberal, or God forbid, all three, avoid any road that goes through any of these depressed areas. Above all, avoid any Republican that contributed to this embarrassing polarization of America. The Republican tapeworm is now hiding in the rotting gut of America, the rest of it well on its way to recovery, bluer than the California sky.

And here's another tip: seek these blue areas, ALL of California, west Texas, New Mexico, the Northeast, Minnesota etc...Nice normal people who know how to vote and try to not have sex with close cousins or farm animals.