This is a red/blue map of the USA showing the voting patterns by county in the Presidential election of 2004. I always thought that traditionally the further to the left the party was the more red their color. When I looked this up on Wikipedia I found this to be true but somewhere around 2000 our media masters decided to change colors. Why?
Actually, if you magnify the above image you see that wherever there is a concentration of population the color gets bluer, or more leftish/Socialist/authoritarian. Why? Does stupidity rise with population concentration? Seems unlikely. Do elitist parts of the population increase in these areas? Yes, but there aren't that many professors, media, feminazis, GPs, etc, are there? Wait a minute, maybe the GPs—government people—are multiplying faster than we realize. Local, county, state, federal, —yes that may explain this puzzling color pattern. Maybe we should have some sort of way of identifying these folks.
Another thing that has puzzled me and may be related to this population concentration. Have you ever wondered why some states are one-party states? Could it be that they are really one party cities whose population overwhelms the rural parts of the state? I would offer Maryland as my first example.
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I would love to read about the causes of liberals crowding in cities and conservatives fleeing to the countryside. I wonder if anyone has done research on it :)
I think there is little doubt that our elites gather in urban areas but I don't think there are enough of them to make that big a difference. I suspect our hoodlums also gather in cities, and they may play a larger part than we could guess at. BTW, Jonah Goldberg's book Liberal Fascism has a lot of useful information in it.
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