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cherylpf
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 Posted: 11/05/04 - 15:20 Post subject: Red v. Blue, rural v. urban
| RexRacer wrote: | The interesting thing about that map showing county wide votes across the nation is that Kerry took almost all of the population centers nationwide, even in otherwise very red states. Even in places like Idaho and the Dakotas, not to mention across the Deep South.
Outside of some rural counties with high Latino or American Indian populations, Bush took almost all of them.
Looking at vote by population density (avg. pop. per square mile):
Bush 61
Kerry 248 |
Why are more rural areas red and urban centers blue?
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Posted: 11/05/04 - 15:40 Post subject:
Gun ownership, for one.
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runaroundsue
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Posted: 11/05/04 - 15:41 Post subject:
because urban is where educated people reside and the educated person votes democratic.
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Posted: 11/05/04 - 15:45 Post subject:
| runaroundsue wrote: | | because urban is where educated people reside and the educated person votes democratic. |
Why?
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AlaninTX
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Posted: 11/05/04 - 15:52 Post subject:
Do you mean to say only uneducated people vote Republican?
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Posted: 11/05/04 - 15:54 Post subject:
| runaroundsue wrote: | | because urban is where educated people reside and the educated person votes democratic. |
Are you joking about this???
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Posted: 11/05/04 - 16:11 Post subject:
Cheryl,
I think there are alot of reasons and various factors why different groups vote different ways. If the Ds could figure out exactly why they'd be awfully psyched.
Rural areas just generally tend to be more conservative, more traditional. Not just in the US, but worldwide.
Urban areas are generally more cosmopolitan, more diverse, and more of a melting pot. They also tend to have more downtrodden people in them as well as vibrancy.
It would be pretty reasonable that urban would vote blue and rural red in general then, I think.
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runaroundsue
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Posted: 11/05/04 - 16:36 Post subject:
| MechEngDropout wrote: |
Why? |
I don't know ask the educated people on this board.
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Posted: 11/05/04 - 16:43 Post subject:
| runaroundsue wrote: | | because urban is where educated people reside and the educated person votes democratic. |
I disagree Sue - suburban would probably have a higher percentage of people with higher education. And I wouldn't say based on the red & blue that the 'burbs are falling under the urban blanket.
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runaroundsue
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Posted: 11/05/04 - 16:51 Post subject:
| robp wrote: |
I disagree Sue - suburban would probably have a higher percentage of people with higher education. And I wouldn't say based on the red & blue that the 'burbs are falling under the urban blanket. |
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Rob....I realize that. I live in a city of 20,000 right now. I'm definitely not among the highly educated with a bachelors.
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MechEngDropout
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Posted: 11/05/04 - 17:11 Post subject:
| runaroundsue wrote: | .
Rob....I realize that. I live in a city of 20,000 right now. I'm definitely not among the highly educated with a bachelors. |
I'm not so sure I understand where you're going Sue. You may not have a higher degree, but with a college education you would fall into the "educated" category. I hardly think the vote is determined largely because of the number of higher degrees present in urban areas.
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Posted: 11/05/04 - 19:48 Post subject:
| MechEngDropout wrote: |
I'm not so sure I understand where you're going Sue. You may not have a higher degree, but with a college education you would fall into the "educated" category. I hardly think the vote is determined largely because of the number of higher degrees present in urban areas. |
I have no idea where I'm going either.....honest.
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Posted: 11/05/04 - 20:17 Post subject:
I think more uneducated live in the cities and are too lazy to do proper research. I bet if Bush ran as a democrat or changed parties to the democrat he would have won the cities.
in my experience the inner cities breed the dems good for you repubs bad
plus I think more educated people live outside of the cities.
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Posted: 11/05/04 - 20:33 Post subject:
| rtpd113 wrote: | I think more uneducated live in the cities and are too lazy to do proper research. I bet if Bush ran as a democrat or changed parties to the democrat he would have won the cities.
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I did plenty of research and I sure didn't come up with any reasons to vote for Bush.
They were discussing this exact issue on NPR today; wish I could have stayed in the car to listen to it, though the gist of it was what Rex said.
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