[dragon14]

A few points:

Elections now generally turn on ethnic and racial divisions. The white population of California, New York, and Illinois actually had a small majority for Bush in exit polls. However, the majority of the votes from the other ethnic groups went for Kerry.

Labeling whole states as if they all agree on the same issues is inaccurate. San Diego and Orange Counties both voted for Bush. They don't want to join your new country. Similarly, Wyandotte and Douglas Counties in Kansas don't want to be in a red nation since they voted for Kerry.

Somehow the northern Atlanta, western Kansas City, Orange County, and San Diego suburbs (to name a few) manage to be quite wealthy and have high numbers of college graduates while generally voting Republican.

The majority Republican county I live in has 47 percent of adults 25 or older with a college degree. Manhattan has 49 percent. A big difference is that in Johnson County, Kansas, we can get a 5 bedroom 5 bath 4600 square foot house on a golf course for $450,000 whereas a New Yorker pays that much for a 700 square foot apartment.

We watch the same shows, movies, and read the same books people in the blue states read. Acting as if Oral Roberts University is representative of our colleges is ludicrous. As if there aren't religious institutions in California.