To: Dale Baker who wrote (191768 ) 6/16/2012 3:44:24 PM From: JohnM Read Replies (1) | Respond to Another key point shows in the county-based presidential election map. Wherever you have urban concentrations (and universities) in the South and in most red states, you find blue enclaves. Those cities also tend to have the jobs and draw immigrants from other regions of the country for more diversity. Thanks. Fascinating map. If anyone else is following this conversation, I recommend, highly, taking a look at it. I would say one big difference between north and south is that blue-collar people in New England usually put more value on higher education as something they missed out on, compared to their counterparts in the South. Just my experience. If one were to do this in a serious way, as opposed to what I'm doing which is simply throwing stuff at the screen to make the case against overgeneralizing and using stereotypes to do serious thinking, that's definitely a way to go. But one would also need to look at the way race/ethnicity cuts across south/north comparisons of blue collar workers.
