The blue archipelago

TOH to Andrew Sullivan for a map that even Edward Tufte would like: the urban archipelago and interesting commentary.  But as interesting as this is, it doesn't tell the real story.  In virtually every county in the union, there were votes for both candidates.  It's just that in the cities - or islands if you will - there was consistently a majority for Kerry.  Someone apparently said that it was Starbuck's vs. Walmart (or maybe Costco vs. Walmart).  I have from reliable sources that Costco tries to sell only the things Nordstrom would sell, and I'm going to guess that Nordstrom is pretty prevalent in the island cities.

I am getting a lot of secessionist e-mail these days from people who want blue states to become part of Canada, stop transfers from blue states to red states, or simply assert more states' rights.  Another possibility may be a population exchange. 

I honestly don't want to be part of Canada.  I've lived there for five years of my life, liked the people, didn't understand all the talk about Canadian culture, but thought it was a little depressing.  I also don't think that the Republicans are all wrong and the Democrats all right. 

But there is no question I'm more at home in the archipelago than in the ocean around it.

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