Turbulent Indigo

      Just in case you needed your mind further warped by the results of the American Presidential election, these refigured maps demonstrate all too well how bizarrely balanced the vote was, the maps redrawn to reflect population density. Here's the traditional Red State/Blue State dichotomy re-represented, looking rather like a smurf in a Tarantino movie:



But then you factor in the proportional balances of Red vs Blue by county, and the map looks like Van Gogh's Rohrshach test:



Eerie. The red areas end up looking frighteningly arterial. Check out the explanatory information-- and other maps, including these ones in greater detail-- here (or click on either of the maps), though I should add the caveat that you may want to pop a few hallucinogens before you do. I don't think Florida has ever quite so much resembled a tumescent wang as it does in these images. (Reminds me of a once-friend of mine, describing her first sexual experience in her teens: "It's so purple!!!" In--deed.)

      ADDENDUM: Check out this jaw-dropping piece of drivel which features this wonderfully demonstrative bit:

* BUSH USA is predominantly white; devoutly Christian (mostly Protestant); openly, vigorously heterosexual; an open land of single-family homes and ranches; economically sound (except for a few farms), but not drunk with cyberworld business development, and mainly English-speaking, with a predilection for respectfully uttering "yes, ma'am" and "yes, sir."

* GORE/KERRY USA is ethnically diverse; multi-religious, irreligious or nastily antireligious; more sexually liberated (if not in actual practice, certainly in attitude); awash with condo canyons and other high-end real estate bordered by sprawling, squalid public housing or neglected private homes, decidedly short of middle-class neighborhoods; both high tech and oddly primitive in its commerce; very artsy, and Babelesque, with abnormally loud speakers.

Ah, the analytical precision of another snarling inhabitant of Jesusland.