See This Red Area? This Is Sand

Luckily for the red side, the system’s designed so that sand can vote

This country was founded on the idea that land is power and land owners get to vote.

We need to change that. Peacefully first. But if that doesn't work...peaceful protesting only works for so long.

Relevant xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/1138/

I doubt anyone will disagree with me but "look at how red this map is" is the stupidest arguement.

Last year after ana election my dad reposted a map on Facebook like this but for the single issue on our states ballot. The comment from the original poster was something like liberal cities decided this all counties need representation. Of course the counties that weren't blue were mostly populated by cows.

But like seriously this was a direct popular vote on a single issue you can't get a more representative election than that one.

Why don't the Blue states just enact social democratic policies and let the Red ones rot in their ancap dystopias?

Americans seem to have forgotten about federalism. You don't need the same laws governing all 340 million of you.

The EU is a patchwork of rights for example. Poland doesn't have marriage equality and only permits abortions in case of rape, incest, or danger to the mother. The Netherlands has marriage equality and abortions on demand up to 24 weeks. The union is not endangered by this.

Hell, Canada does federalism better than you, with a relatively weak federal government that needs to be always consulting with the provinces. Provinces retain much of the income-tax revenue and get to experiment much more meaningfully with different policy mixes, under a multi-party system.

Good luck trying to get an American conservative to understand what the second map represents. I means shit, they refuse to grasp the concept of "per capita" because they know it makes them look bad.

That huge red circles Phoenix right?

Hey, that's not fair. Some of that is also sagebrush and pine trees. And some of it is cool rocks.

Land doesn't vote. People vote.

there's no lying like lying with maps

(for those ggr nerds, yes, "the map was a lie")

Is the top image a map someone tried to push as the ratio of red vs blue counties?

I hate sand

https://i0.wp.com/demcastusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/TryToImpeachThisUpdated.gif?resize=800%2C505&ssl=1

People live in cities

Who’s read an argument that’s something like “if we change this, then elections will always go blue, and red areas will feel unheard and _____”

It’s argued the blank is something bad but I can’t recall what it was 🤷‍♂️ IDK if it was civil war/secession bad or what

How come they always color the places that don't have anybody there as red?

Why can't blue take it?

Well Biden just stepped down from the elections

Voter turnout is important, then

You know what it's going to be 100 years from now?

IT'S GONNA BE SAND!!

-- RIP Sam Kinnison

Sam Kinison reference. You are a gentleman and a scholar.

"We have deserts in America. We just don't fucking live in them!"

This map is fascinating. Would be cool to have a mini legend for all those blue dots, as in what cities they are and why did people gather there.

Cartography is super cool.

Issue with this (because of first past the post) there are still a significant number of people voting the opposite way of who wins in their electorate, for the most part.

I don't know that there's a lot of sand in Kansas.

There's a whole lot of dumbass rednecks though.

Oh shit

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/30/opinion/election-results-maps.html

https://purplestatesofamerica.org/

Yall should read How to Lie with Maps.

If like 200,000 move to Wyoming it could flip. I have seen people bring it up numerous times but no one acted on it.

Good to know: blue doesn’t need to worry about voting

Protect your water, seems to be in important proximity most of the larger dot clusters?

Ah so elections should be a piece of cake then!

What's the medium sized red dot just north of LA? I live around there and it makes sense but there's a lot of small-ish towns around here and I don't know what it represents. What population patterns do these dots represent? I'm guessing the red dot is either Visalia, Tulare County, San Joaquin Valley in general, or Fresno.