Sunday, November 07, 2004
Two Americas, but not the two you were thinking of
The bar graph at the bottom of this page shows a curious effect. To quote Prof. Mark Newman, author of the page:
It appears that there are, as the pundits have been telling us, "two Americas," but they are not the ones people usually talk about. They are "divided America," where people split roughly evenly between Republican and Democrat, and "decided America," where everyone is a Democrat. The Democrats of "decided America" number about 5.9 million, or 11% of all Democratic voters. These people are unlikely ever even to encounter a Republican voter in their home town.Hmmm...
