The Arbitrary ChuckJerry

Here's a picture of the election results by county. You may have seen the map with red four bush and blue for kerry and it looks like Bush rules the world, but this purple map is a little more nuanced.

It shows that there are democrats who live outside of the big cities, they just happen to be outnumbered by the repoublicans in most places across the country. The one phenomenon I don't understand is how there seems to be a bunch of democrats who live all along the Mississippi River. It's clearly a trend, but I can't think of why that might be. Maybe it's just that people who live near water are more sane.

Click on the map to go to the site. Once you're there click on the link to get to the even bigger map. It shows the data a bit more clearly.