What political region do you live in? Check out great "Beyond Red & Blue"

[Bombtrack]

Poll question: What political region do you live in? Check out great "Beyond Red & Blue"

http://www.massinc.org/commonwealth/new_map_exclusive/ten_regions_index.html
The 10 Regions of US Politics

Our regions are based on voting returns from both national and state elections, demographic data from the US Census, and certain geographic features such as mountain ranges and coastlines. Each region represents about one-tenth of the national electorate, casting between 10.4 million and 10.8 million votes in the 2000 presidential election.

Click here to view all the descriptions, stats, and maps together on one page (please be patient, this is a very large page and will take some time to load)http://www.massinc.org/commonwealth/new_map_exclusive/ten_regions.html

and read "Beyond Red and Blue" essay, here:
http://www.massinc.org/commonwealth/new_map_exclusive/beyond_red_blue.html
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For people near the "border" of 2 or more, click around to the different sections(where there are individual discriptions and maps) and you should be able to aproximate. If not, guess I suppose. Sorry to foriegn DUers, I guess you can't vote in this poll as there are only 10 lines/options in polls.

[JohnLocke]

1. I'm right on the Florida border between El Norte and Southern Lowlands.

[renegade000]

2. what the hell?

NVA/DC suburbs are considered "southern lowlands"?

[Spider Jerusalem]

14. Lowlands: not mountainous.

And Virginia and DC are in the South. Pretty obvious.

[renegade000]

15. well geographically yes...but

politically i don't think we should be grouped in this region. heh

[flaminbats]

27. How did any of Mississippi get into Appalachia?

:crazy: I admit Trent Lott and Zell do have much in common!

[eyesroll]

3. I'm sort of on the border

I'm in the Milwaukee area, but I think I'm just to the west of the Great Lakes border. I selected Big River.

My actual county is in Republican Hell, but I guess that's a different map.

[OKNancy]

5. Honey, if you want hell..I'm in Southern Comfort

The most Republican part of the country.

[eyesroll]

8. You do have my sympathy

Although I'm surrounded by (R)s, it's a short drive to sanity.

But I remember reading somewhere that my county (Waukesha, WI) had something like the second-highest percentage vote for Shrub in 2000 for a county its size in the country. Our Congressman is Sensenbrenner. Our state legislators are both conservative Republicans. Our county exec is a Republican; our DA is a Republican who targets Democrats for investigation (http://www.fightingbob.com/article.cfm?articleID=188).

[SW FL Dem]

16. Me Too :(

I am definitely a fish out of water here.

[rasputin1952]

22. Northeast Nebraska here...

some nights I wait for the lynch mob to show up outside my door.

:evilgrin:

[Kathy in Cambridge]

4. This is just some guys interpretation of demographics

Interesting, makes sense in some areas, but not others. Northeast Corridor is technically where the Amtrak runs (Boston to DC). Business-wise and demographically, these areas have more in common than say, Boston and upstate Vermont.

[jsw_81]

6. Upper coasts - Washington

It's heavily Democratic, tolerant, relatively secular, and has a great climate. What more could I ask for?

[CalebHayes]

11. Some sunshine

[jsw_81]

17. What's sunshine?

:)

[NC_Nurse]

7. Apparently

Chapel Hill is considered Southern Lowlands, although it used to be a liberal bastion. Once we got listed in mucho mags as "the best place to live " , we've gotten a lot more repubs and things have changed.:(
I remember when a repub sticker would be a bad thing to have on your car, almost as bad as a Dook sticker, now they're more plentiful. Sigh...

[Piperay]

9. El Norte...coastal Calif.

but I am in a very white-bread repuke area. :shrug:

[CalebHayes]

10. Kick

this is really cool :kick:

[Fovea]

12. Though to an extent

there is a new belt of El Norte starting to emerge in
the NAFTA rail and I35 corridor up through KC.
Almost like a micro climate, as it were.

[Kathleen04]

13. El Norte

Riverside, California. If I had to guess, I'd say the newer parts of this city are more Republican and the older parts more Democratic.

[elperromagico]

18. My county's mentioned in the full package as a potential bellwether.

As goes Garland County, so goes the nation...

[Jane Austin]

19. Accckk!!

I'm in the most Republican section in the whole country. :(

[yorgatron]

20. i WAS an "upper coast"

but now i'm an "el norte" moved from santa cruz to san jose ca.

[Bombtrack]

21. bump

.

[Lauren2882]

23. MassInc Rocks

A couple years ago they did a similar thing with the Massachusetts political map. It's really smart stuff.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

24. Cool.! This is neat! (i voted farmbelt)

I could quibble alot with this map, but I think its a prettty good effort and take on things.....

,,,,,I see they pretty clearly define the urban/ethnic Great Lakes....thats a real good call, IMO.

[Zynx]

25. Big River according to this.

[flaminbats]

26. Jesse James and John Breaux come from the same region?

Bill Clinton and Russ Feingold come from Big River?

Zell Miller and Harris Wofford are from Appalachia?

Ernest Hollings and Joe Biden come from south lowlands?

And folks in Gary, Indiana really don't live in Chicagoland? :wtf:

And Las Vegas is really part of El Norte? :think: