Re: paleonet political challenges to the teaching of evolution

[Ed Venit <epv@xxxxxxxx>]

Also worth noting is the the popular "Red State / Blue State" dichotomy is 
a gross oversimplification.  Traditionally red states (like Texas) have 
some very blue counties, while some traditionally blue states (like 
California and Illinois) have quite a number of red areas.

Check out the map on this website, nicknamed "Purple America".  It's a 
county by county breakdown of the 2004 election color coded by the 
percentage of Bush/Kerry voters in that county...

http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/JAVA/election2004/

I think it is natural to assume that creationism thrives primarily in red 
areas of the US.  I wonder to what degree this assumption is accurate.



--On Thursday, February 17, 2005 4:37 PM -0500 WAS2002@aol.com wrote:

> Just a correction to Bill Chaisson's last email with the states colored,
> Wisconsin should be blue.  It hasn't voted Republican in a presidential
> election since Reagan.   ~~Resident of Wisconsin for my whole life, all
> 21 years of it.
>