Check Out This Disorienting Electoral Map

[On the Road]

Feel like I'm tripping. Things were different back in '76.

:smoke: :crazy:

[tekisui]

1. That made me dizzy, my eyes were darting all over.

:rofl:

[MadrasT]

4. I did the exact same thing... huh? huh? huh? what about?

and then my head almost exploded. :rofl:

[SoCalDem]

Incumbent used to always be red.. challenger-blue

until republican claimed red, as their color forever and ever :)

[Uncle Joe]

7. Kind of ironic, because they were usually the most vocal about

"better dead than red". I guess they've accepted Communism as their new ideology.:)

[UndertheOcean]

2. Many Southerners had and still have great respect for Jimmy Carter

[demnan]

3. What has happened is the technology boom in Northern VA

People moving into this community from many different areas, tech people are mostly liberal. That wasn't the case in 1976. Remember that most of the interent domain names are set up in Herndon, VA. Plus we have had many people moving into Prince Willian as well that are more liberal.

[ColbertWatcher]

5. Blech, I hate seeing California red. n/t

[marions ghost]

6. interesting...

:kick:

[Rowdyboy]

8. Wow....I had forgotten entirely....The whole west coast voted for Ford/Dole....

The south voted Democratic....Connecticut, New Jersey and Vermont Republican, West Virginia and Kentucky Democratic.

It was a different time indeed.

[Arugula Latte]

9. Whoa. Freaky Friday.

Red California and Illinois and Blue Texas ... :crazy:

[On the Road]

10. The Red Michigan Seemed Out of Place

until I remember it was Ford's home state.