If acres could vote

For other graphic representations of the recent Presidential election results, go here. Thanks to Matt Yglesias for the link.

Update on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 04:17PM by Skeptic

Tallied Statewide, majorities of whites voted for McCain only in the old Confederacy plus Oklahoma, Kentucky, and West Virginia, according to this Brad DeLong post. 

Update on Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 09:36AM by Skeptic

The counties in which John McCain garnered a larger percentage of votes than George W. Bush did in 2004 are also in the old South (11 Confederate States plus OK, KY, and WV) plus, of course, AK and AZ. Of the good set of graphics The New York Times has here, this is the one that best tells the tale, 

Comments

[christine]

That's a really interesting map. Between that, and the fact that 54 million people STILL voted for McCain and PALIN, I wonder what, as citizens, we should be doing to raise the educational/consciousness level to steer the US from going to the dark side in the future. I now believe that after Vietnam we all let down our guard and went back to our lives where the right wing hardened themselves to take over. And, they did from Reagan on..Clinton was a blip who looked good because of the high tech boom. Now, as someone used to say to me, we need to learn to sprint while we are ahead. I know you can't always be in a sprint, but I do think that we need to move into a different stage of permanent guard.