ModEl of categorizing US citizens

Initially defined as to whether a state voted in majority for George W Bush vs AlGore in the 2000 election. Blue=Gore (Democratic Party), Red=Bush (Republican Party).

David Brooks on (Dec'2001) the split.

[Timothy Noah] identifies (Apr'2004) as being a county-level split (with urban-area counties more likely to be Blue). (Urban Secession)

• here's a map of county outcomes from the 2004 Presidential Election.
  

• Nov11'2004 - the editors of [The Stranger] wrote the Urban Archipelago to make the same point.

Is this StasIst/[Neo Phobe] vs Dynam Ist/Neo Philia (Virginia Postrel)? Probably not, given that the Democratic Party is owned by the Labor Union-s.

Tom Wolfe on the anti-democrat resentment. I think support for Bush is about not wanting to be led by [East Coast] pretensions. It is about not wanting to be led by people who are forever trying to force their twisted sense of morality onto us, which is a non-morality. That is constantly done, and there is real resentment... I cannot stand the lock-step among everyone in my particular world. They all do the same thing, without variation. It gets so boring. There is something in me that particularly wants it registered that I am not one of them.

Scary slave-state map

(The citizens of) which states pay the most in federal taxes, vs which states receive federal money.

• http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2004/09/red_states_feed.html

• http://mauledagain.blogspot.com/2004_09_01_mauledagain_archive.html#109630663799759020

• esp AlasKa

• [Chip Taylor] goes meta about [Income Redistribution].

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