Kevin's Weblog

I have a new reason to dislike the Electoral College. Not because it overrepresents rural areas. Not because the winner-take-all allocations distort the popular vote. Today it is because of the realization of how much it contributes to the appearance of deep division in our country because of the binary red state-blue state maps that come out of it. Well, the next time someone tells you that some state is red or blue, you can tell them that they’re all lavender

Even more interesting in some ways is this county-by-county map. What I love about this is that it shows that there are more bastions of solid Democratic support in the south than on the west coast or the northeast.

Update: one more variation, again vectored by jwz, this time a purple cartogram.