This Handy Map Shows Just How Divided We Really Are
There’s Trump’s America and Biden’s America, and here’s where the lines are drawn
The world remains a scary, perilous place and we remain in a period of grave danger. But it is undeniable that whatever your politics, the last two weeks have been so pleasant, so quiet. It turns out not having an attention-famished monster obsessed with authoritarianism and social media in the White House does wonders for the volume dial on the national stereo. There have been whole hours where I have not thought about politics one whit. Eventually, I might even make it a full day. It’s nice.
But the quiet should not provide the illusion that everything is better, that suddenly we have become one nation again, that vast national chasms have been bridged. If you need a reminder, I recommend checking out this time suck that the New York Times dropped on the world on Tuesday:
This project could also probably be called “How to Confirm Most of Your Existing Biases About This Crazy-Ass Country.” The map is very simple; it breaks down, in a granular district-by-district way, which areas of the country voted for…
