NYT, Two Americas

[Willie99]

[h=1]The Two Americas of 2016[/h]

By TIM WALLACE NOV. 16, 2016​

For many Americans, it feels as if the 2016 election split the country in two.

To visualize this, we took the election results and created two new imaginary nations by slicing the country along the sharp divide between Republican and Democratic Americas.


Geographically, Donald J. Trump won most of the land area of the United States. A country consisting of areas he won retains more than 80 percent of the nation’s counties.

While Trump country is vast, its edges have been eroded by coastal Democrats, and it is riddled with large inland lakes of Clinton voters who were generally concentrated in dense urban areas.

 

[Willie99]

Hillary Clinton overwhelmingly won the cities, like Los Angeles, Chicago and New York City, but Mr. Trump won many of the suburbs, isolating the cities in a sea of Republican voters.

Mrs. Clinton’s island nation has large atolls and small island chains with liberal cores, like college towns, Native American reservations and areas with black and Hispanic majorities. While the land area is small, the residents here voted for Mrs. Clinton in large enough numbers to make her the winner of the overall popular vote.

 

[Willie99]

nothing new here, the same demographics voting for the same parties

all that "changing demographics" we were being sold? BULLSHIT !!!!!!!!!

 

[Dave007inVegas]

nothing new here, the same demographics voting for the same parties

all that "changing demographics" we were being sold? BULLSHIT !!!!!!!!!

As I see it Trump won because white people got off their lazy collective asses and voted.

 

[SheriffJoe]

As I see it Trump won because white people got off their lazy collective asses and voted.

Nothing more motivating than getting off your ass and voting for a moderate establishment Republican.

 

[thecentaur]

Pretty amusing that the democrats pander to the gibs me dat crowd for their voting base but that mentality is closely linked to being too unmotivated to go vote

 

[Willie99]

As I see it Trump won because white people got off their lazy collective asses and voted.

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

PS: they came from work AND voted

 

[Willie99]

Nothing more motivating than getting off your ass and voting for a moderate establishment Republican.

your 2016 material is better than ever

great stuff

 

[Dave007inVegas]

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

PS: they came from work AND voted

My bad, I should have been more specific. I was talking about the "Silent Majority" who sat it out in 08 and 12.