Do Rhode Islanders identify as Rhode Islanders or as centrist/conservative/liberal, for the purposes of voting in the presidential election?
I think this is an interesting question. The 2000 electoral map I tried to link to above suggests that regionalism is still a vital force in national politics, though of course there are fantastic purple nation maps of that election out there which show that with greater granularity it's much less clear cut. Still, I think it's telling as anything that Gore won the West Coast, the upper Northeast, and some Great Lakes states and Bush won the rest of the country. It's not exactly like you can disentangle regional interests from political affiliation.
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Date: 2011-05-10 18:52 (UTC)I think this is an interesting question. The 2000 electoral map I tried to link to above suggests that regionalism is still a vital force in national politics, though of course there are fantastic purple nation maps of that election out there which show that with greater granularity it's much less clear cut. Still, I think it's telling as anything that Gore won the West Coast, the upper Northeast, and some Great Lakes states and Bush won the rest of the country. It's not exactly like you can disentangle regional interests from political affiliation.