Atrios has a rant up about the whole red state blue state thing. He says that the red-blue divide isn't trye, that it's not smart to dwell on it, and that to do so falls into their trap.
While I agree with much of what he writes, I have to disagree about his assertion that there is not such a thing as a red state/blue state divide. While it's true that most states were split between Bush & Kerry, breaking the vote down into county or other regional grouping to uncover the Kerry vote doesn't necessarily mean that a state is more blue than what it initially appears. For example, I live in a county with a large university, which typically goes Democratic. The surrounding counties tend to go Republican. However, while Clarke county went something like 60% Kerry, the surrounding counties were all more than 70% for Bush. So by one standard you could say that Georgia is less "red" than it otherwise appears. However, as a region we're so overwhelmingly conservative that to call it anything but a red state would be to miss the forest for the trees.
Posted by Jason at November 27, 2004 01:17 PM