Nate Knows Nada

I got a forward from a friend of a new map of American politics that’s eminently more useful that your average “blue states/red states” discussion.

I’m
an “upper coasts” person.  I’ve spent most of the last 10 years
(except for a year out of the country) in Upper Coast regions. 
But you shouldn’t commit the ecological fallacy and assume that I’m
left of center because of that.  Yes, I probably am, but my
unreliability as a Democratic voter comes because I sometimes vote
Republican.  As a political scientist, I know that third-party
voting is not really a viable alternative on the mass level, in a
system like ours, which with its winner-take-all districts and
federalism and other institutional elements, enshrines two-party
systems.  So, taking the median voter theorem into account, I try
to cast votes for candidates that I think can win (capture the median
voter) and yet still come closest ot my own preferences.

Anyway, the map is cool.  Take a look!