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as per our pre dinner conversation yesterday

if you go ahead and equi-size and compare them there are interesting patterns. lots of lights often means democrats. income seems often uncorrelated although high living expenses in big cities is a confounder - you can see some correlation in the great lakes manufacturing areas. I think the most interesting is the predominant ethnic background map - mexican and hispanic/spanish areas went blue in the southeast the germans all over and the english (read mormon) in utah went red native americans often went blue in opposition to their neighbors - look at south dakota and the areas of western-european immigration in the northeast (italian irish english french) went blue along with the cubans in Miami-Dade. Interestingly in the southeast counties that identified themselves as 'murrican on the 2000 US census almost always went red. and apparently they are the only people who marked 'american' on the US census . . . so THAT's where real america is ;-) also look at the random 'italian' county in florida where people come from new york to retire ;-)

and in conclusion

now high-school graduation. outside of the city-higher ed correlation i see a low-graduation rate and manufacturing regions correlation and a high grad/hispanic/democrat correlation in the southeast

DON'T JUDGE ME I'M PROCRASTINATING
so interestingly if you're all the way poor or rich you liked obama