Soda Jerks, Pop Tarts and Coke Heads: The Choices of a Purple Generation By Ilya Shapiro
Ever since the 2000 elections, Americans have been fascinated by maps showing the split of this country into two competing camps: Republican Red America and Democratic Blue America. Especially when viewed through the lens of the winner-take-all state-by-state electoral college. In 2004, for example, John Kerry won the entire Northeast and West coast, four states in the upper Midwest, and nothing else.
County-by-county (or district-by-district) representations refine our understanding of these political snapshots, showing that, rather than being a polarized 50-50 nation, most of the country is actually variations on Purple America. This column staked its claim early on to that blended descriptor, as a way of identifying a certain subset of the wide swath of citizenry uncomfortable with the emerging red-and-blue geographical labels.
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