City Mouse

I don’t know, bro. Isn’t one of the founding ideas of the Republic to create certain balances? The Senate and the House of Representatives, the very idea of rights for minorities to protect them from majority dictatorship… There needs to be a balance between population and geography. That image, actually, made me less virulently anti-electoral college. Although the electoral college may give rural areas a disproportionate vote, Bush still did win the popular vote, so ditching the EC wouldn’t have really changed anything, this time around.

I’m interested in the anomalies: Without really knowing, I would guess that the blue rural areas in the Southwest (including Texas) are areas with large Mexican-American populations. But what’s with the blue banks of the Mississippi? Or that blue swatch in the middle of Alabama? Did Sherman make that?

The electoral college was designed not to prevent the tyranny of the majority, but as a compromise with the slave owning aristocracy in the South. And while it is true that Bush won the popular vote, it is important to remember that the campaigns would have been very different if they weren’t strategizing over the electoral college - catering to rural interests.

I imagine the blue banks of the Mississippi represents were the African American population lives. Same with Alabama.