Red vs. Blue

The NYT has a very cool graphics package on the election, looking at county-by-county breakdown. It makes it clear the divide in America is not so much red states vs. blue states, but rural vs. urban. Kerry won the big states (except some in Texas, Oklahoma City, Salt Lake City, Phoenix & a handful of others), while Bush won nearly all the suburban and rural areas.

Even in the ultra-solid “blue” states like California and New York, once you get upstate (in New York) or away from the coast (in California), there’s a lot of red. And even in many red states, you see blue cities like Atlanta, New Orleans, Denever, Las Vegas. Also a swath of blue running right down the Mississippi, where the urban areas are.