Red State/Blue State

[Jurollo]

I am conducting research for a paper in one of my penultimate courses in college dissecting the increasing difference between the red states and the blue states in the US. Just curious if anyone has any good links or sources I can investigate to help the increasingly large scope of the project? Thank you in advance.
~Justin

[Jurollo]

P.S. I know some of you brainiacs have to have something.

[ilya]

You're gonna narrow your focus at some point, right? ....right?!

[Jurollo]

Well the class is 'Human Identity', I told the professor it was going to be fairly macro in its coverage of the issues and he was cool with it. Essentially I want to look at the core values that differ between the two sides, the increasing role of religion in the red states and America in general, as well as any socioeconomic statistical breakdowns I can get outside census.gov, which I am already drowning in.
~Justin

[slickpoppa]

www.nascar.com (http://www.nascar.com)

[Jurollo]

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Ok so that takes care of the red states, now what /images/graemlins/wink.gif
~Justin

[z32fanatic]

I would look at various polls regarding educational and economic differences between the two states. This can be found by googling i'm sure. If you're a democrat, this paper will be really easy as the blue states are usually superior to the red states. If you're a republican, just be like "they're liberal pussies!"

[Max Power]

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www.nascar.com (http://www.nascar.com)

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Ok so that takes care of the red states, now what /images/graemlins/wink.gif
~Justin

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http://216.220.97.17/

...?

[edtost]

maybe try working more specifically than on states? take a look at this (http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/JAVA/election2004/), for instance.

[Matty]

www.retrovsmetro.org (http://www.retrovsmetro.org)

dailykos.com just recently had an article about good research sites.

then there's google.

[housenuts]

try the politics forum. they will fill your boots

[astroglide]

http://sensoryoverload.typepad.com/sensory_overload/images/then_map_2.jpg

http://sensoryoverload.typepad.com/sensory_overload/images/now_map_2.jpg

[masse75]

Hey, this is OOT. If you want brainiac crap, go to "Politics"

[Jurollo]

Got it there too, no responses, I think I am 'below' them /images/graemlins/mad.gif
~Justin

[ThaSaltCracka]

I don't get it.
the highest percentage of blacks in America are in the South, right?

[Jack of Arcades]

Right. Louisiana, Alabama, Missisippi, Georgia, Virginia, and I think South Carolina all have sizable black populations (> 20%).

However, it's still a minority.

[ThaSaltCracka]

oh, but I was just wondering what the point of the maps that astro posted were, because all I can infer from his post is that somehow through horrible logic one is suppose to assume that because those states were slave states, and that because they all voted republican this year, that those states must be full of racist, right astro?

[LAGmaniac]

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oh, but I was just wondering what the point of the maps that astro posted were, because all I can infer from his post is that somehow through horrible logic one is suppose to assume that because those states were slave states, and that because they all voted republican this year, that those states must be full of racist, right astro?

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or they're just ignorant

[emonrad87]

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oh, but I was just wondering what the point of the maps that astro posted were, because all I can infer from his post is that somehow through horrible logic one is suppose to assume that because those states were slave states, and that because they all voted republican this year, that those states must be full of racist, right astro?

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or they're just ignorant

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Posts like this make YOU sound very ignorant.

[LAGmaniac]

hopefully not to people I have any respect for. luckily you're not one of them

[emonrad87]

Um, right. That makes you sound a lot better.

[jakethebake]

Try this site. (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=politics)

[Jurollo]

For those arguing here I think both maps and more importantly the correlation between the two has some validity. More so as a start for research, why is it broken down the same today? Have the oppressive attitudes of early day southerners been turned into extreme conservatism? They are all valid topics brought on by those breakdowns. No alterior motives can be definately extrapolated from the fact that he posted them.
~Justin

[twankerr]

I think we ALL know that the difference between the North and the South ran deeper than slavery. It still does. That is all you can discern from the maps.

[Matty]

http://snapsblog.com/i/580/snaps_us-election-2004_results-listed-by_average-iq.jpg

[prizminferno]

state IQ (http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/stateiq.asp)

[Chairman Wood]

To be honest, I don't believe that one bit. (Before anyone gets the wrong idea, I voted without a second thought for John Kerry). The very definition of IQ should yield that the average IQ of each state is nearly the same. With the exception of if there were some sort of statewide enviromental catastrophe that caused brain defects among a child born in a certain state. I would be more inclined to believe this table if it were say "average level of education achieved by voters in certain states," and you saw a trend that listed Blue States tended to have more educated people than Red States.