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Originally Posted by Locobot
Looking at maps like this is fun but it's always an oversimplification. Don't forget the impact of middle west abolitionists in bringing about an end to slavery. John Brown (ref. Harper's Ferry map) came out of Kansas and our first Republican Abe Lincoln was a Kentucky-Indiana-Illinois product. The rural-urban divide seems true on the surface, but many red states have their populations concentrated in very large urban centers: Texas, Florida, Virginia, Missouri, Nevada, Georgia, Ohio, etc.
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The majority of Florida is red, but the county where Miami is located was overwhelmingly blue. The county that includes Austin Texas went to Kerry. Cleveland Ohio went to Kerry, yet the rest of the state is mostly Bush Country. Las Vegas went to Kerry, but the rest of the state is crimson. All these are examples of how the more rural areas have overcome some of Kerrys metropolitan strongholds. I'm not saying my theory is scientific or even nessisarily true, but it's just what I see on the map.