From reddest to bluest: 2004 Bush % by state

[carolinayellowdog]

Hey,

After looking for this ranking via google for a while I gave up and created it myself. Here are the 2004 presidential results in decreasing order of percentages of Bush voters:

71 Utah
69 Wyoming
68 Idaho
66 Nebraska
66 Oklahoma
63 Alabama
63 North Dakota
62 Kansas
61 Texas
60 Indiana
60 Kentucky
60 Mississippi
60 South Dakota
59 Montana
58 Georgia
58 South Carolina
57 Louisiana
57 Tennessee
56 North Carolina
55 Arizona
54 Arkansas
54 Missouri
54 Virginia
52 Colorado
52 Florida
51 Nevada
51 Ohio
50 New Mexico
49 New Hampshire
49 Pennsylvania
49 Wisconsin
48 Michigan
48 Minnesota
48 Oregon
46 Delaware
46 New Jersey
45 California
45 Hawaii
45 Illinois
45 Maine
44 Connecticut
43 Maryland
39 Rhode Island
39 Vermont
37 Massachusetts
9 District of Columbia

[quaoar]

1. What about?

Alaska, West Virginia, New York, Washington and Iowa?

[carolinayellowdog]

2. Editing period expired, darnit! Corrected list

I shouldn't post while doing other things. They are: AK-62, WV-56, NY-40, WA-46 , IA-50. So the ranking goes


71 Utah
69 Wyoming
68 Idaho
66 Nebraska
66 Oklahoma
63 Alabama
63 North Dakota
62 Alaska
62 Kansas
61 Texas
60 Indiana
60 Kentucky
60 Mississippi
60 South Dakota
59 Montana
58 Georgia
58 South Carolina
57 Louisiana
57 Tennessee
56 North Carolina
56 West Virginia
55 Arizona
54 Arkansas
54 Missouri
54 Virginia
52 Colorado
52 Florida
51 Nevada
51 Ohio
50 New Mexico
50 Iowa
49 New Hampshire
49 Pennsylvania
49 Wisconsin
48 Michigan
48 Minnesota
48 Oregon
46 Delaware
46 New Jersey
46 Washington
45 California
45 Hawaii
45 Illinois
45 Maine
44 Connecticut
43 Maryland
40 New York
39 Rhode Island
39 Vermont
37 Massachusetts
9 District of Columbia

[QC]

3. Of the top 10, only two are in the South.

So when are we going to see some "Fuck the Midwest" and "Fuck the Mountain States" threads?

[Ripley]

4. That would be when we see Pigs Fly.

Oh, and then the conversation will turn to how the Southern Whites forced those Midwestern and mountain states to vote like them: racist.

As I was trying to explain to my Canadian friend, it's a complicated situation here in America. I honestly believe the Media is our biggest problem...in fact, I told her it was Pravdaesque.

Hate radio and the Corporate TV News channels riding high on revenues of clash where one group is pitted against another is the main reason our Democracy is dying.

[carolinayellowdog]

5. Never-- but why? Projection mechanisms

Hey,

And only 3 of the top 15! The most perplexing thing about all this is how Utah, Idaho, Nebraska, et al get off scott free while much-less-red states like Virginia and Florida are targeted for denunciation as "Southern." In the recently-locked thread in GD, even a Kentuckian and a West Virginian started piling on with anti-Southern attacks. For a Virginian/Carolinian it is especially galling to read such bs from places so far behind VA/NC in income, education, health, the arts, and so on. As it was to see someone from 63% Bush North Dakota piling on the other day.

Mostly it seems to be people from the Northeast, West Coast, and blue Midwestern states who enjoy blaming and attacking the South while ignoring the much redder Great Plains and Mountain States. Why? I think that these states are just *invisible* to most who don't inhabit them. When someone is looking to project the Shadow onto a satisfying target-- the shadow being racism, inequality, violence, superstition, etc., all the negative aspects of American life-- somehow the South fits that psychic need far better than the more solidly Republican states. Obviously the Civil War has a lot to do with that; all the ritual denunciations and wishes that we were not in the same country have to do with a psychology of contamination and cleansing. America is contaminated with negative values and false beliefs that Bush exemplifies, and if only we could rid ourselves of the contamination everything would be fine. Hence the "get rid of the Southerners" motif. People on the coasts don't have enough psychic connection to the *real* Republican strongholds to feel any satisfaction at the thought of expelling Utah, Idaho, and all.

BTW I'm not sure that even two of the top ten are in the South. If Texans were asked to choose between South and Southwest as the region they belong to, I think 3/4 would choose the latter. Texas does not feel to me part of the region I call home any more than New England does-- less so in fact. I've been wondering why Texans at DU don't just start denouncing the South themselves in order to fit in!

CYD

[Frogtutor]

6. I'm from Texas, and we do consider ourselves as part of the south

For the most part, anyway. I've noticed on other threads like, "What part of the south are you from", LOTS of Texans posting. Even if we didn't want to be grouped with the south, I think the people doing the bashing would still consider us so. Some people base the distinction of "southern" on who was involved in the Confederacy. Texas was definitely part of the Confederacy, whether we like it, or not.

[Frogtutor]

7. Thanks for posting this; it's great to see the actual numbers! n/t

[flaminbats]

8. I believe we're in a transitional period..

after the babyboomers retire and the economy is completely wrecked, I think the south will return to the Democratic fold.

[Dob Bole]

9. Most Kerry votes...#1 DC, #5 Maryland

These are, for all intents and purposes, Southern.