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[wispfox]

Help! I'm being attacked by this map!

(otherwise known as a 3-D map of the election results, via a co-worker)

Comments

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

-Ooo, weighted by population? Cool!

. . . And, man, does it show what the problem is . . .

[(Anonymous)]

right, so what i'm seeing here is that all of the liberals are congregating together in our gigantic blue towers because we can't stand to be around the rest of the country.

sarcastic commentary? or scathing truth? you decide.

- demosthenes

[(Anonymous)]

That's a little short-sighted, isn't it? Perhaps it's simply a function of population density, which you know is higher on the coasts than in Middle America. And really, it's not like the conservatives are running liberals out of town on rails or anything.

- Locke

[beowabbit]

However, I think some of that is changing, as people move to urban areas and they get larger and we (some of us, anyway) get priced out of their centers. For instance, I would not be at all surprised if people migrating to southern New Hamsphire from Boston are the reason NH went blue this year. I think in an election cycle or two the same thing may happen to Virginia.

I think to some extent people become more liberal when they move to urban areas, just because they're exposed to urban values and to greater diversity. So I'm not so worried about the tendency for people to flee the red valleys and congregate in the blue towers, particularly since the blue towers tend to spread out.

[ian-gunn.livejournal.com]

Lots of cool maps lately. I like maps. One of the few text books I still look at for fun is an historical atlas. It is interesting to visually see the ebb and flow of cultures and countries throughout history.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Lots of cool maps lately.

I am map-obsessed! Always have been. :)

I'm way too thrilled by my 2005 Road Atlas for North America, for example.

[ian-gunn.livejournal.com]

You mentioned picking that up on your way to Freeport, Maine. Did you stop at that place with the big globe? I keep wanting to on my trips up that way but haven't yet.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

I don't remember a big globe, but it was rainy, which makes it more difficult to notice such things.

[ian-gunn.livejournal.com]

You can see it to the left on your way North on 95. Just south of Freeport. It is in DeLorme's building. Here (http://portlandme.about.com/library/weekly/aa122101a.htm)is a description.

My wife's parents moved way Down East a few years ago so we head up that way a few times a year. I want to stop and get an upclose look at the globe but so far the timing has not worked out as we pass by it.

[ian-gunn.livejournal.com]

I hate not being able to edit comments. It is on the right not the left as you head north. *shrug*