Google map of “Occupy” protests

Google map of "Occupy" protests October 12, 2011 4:24 pm Robert

Prepared (and presumably updated) by Mother Jones

BTW, the people wringing their hands not knowing what in the hell those dirty hippies could possibly want can find the answer in that map. Or, here, let me club you over the head with it:

That is, of course, the classic map of general political leaning by county (ca 2004, in this case). Sure the protests are visceral and somewhat incoherent: Lotta people feeling backed into a corner by the Right Uber Alles. It might be a tad short-sighted for conservatives to take pleasure in that observation.

Just for completeness: The House midterms for 2010 by county. by TB 2011-10-14 12:24:20
- See my comment to ER on this thread concerning lying with maps. Take Colorado for example. I don't have the ... by podrock 2011-10-14 20:56:44
  - Well, of course the population density of the blue areas is greater. Elections come out pretty even, don't they? ... by TB 2011-10-15 06:25:02
  - I uploaded a png for red/blue counties by population in the media library. It didn't display on my first try. ... by FrankC 2011-10-14 22:53:56
Human communities may fracture under stress, but they rarely crumble to nothingness. The fall of Rome taught us that. ... by ER 2011-10-13 18:01:08
- I wouldn't posit "nothingness" either. by Robert 2011-10-14 09:13:05
  - Socially, we're up to it. Technologically, I don't know. As I have pointed out earlier, unlike the Roman ... by ER 2011-10-14 12:01:12
    - Red and Blue used to alternate from election to election with the graphics from the major news networks. It wasn't ... by podrock 2011-10-14 20:40:21
      - That's pretty obvious but boots on the ground counts for something by FrankC 2011-10-14 21:13:38
    - The mainstream media changed the colors prior to the 2000 election. Ask them. by TB 2011-10-14 12:09:50
      - Red vs Blue? Well, at least you found something in that post worth commenting about. No doubt it was ... by ER 2011-10-14 12:21:42
        
        Well, the rest of the post was just more of the apocalyptic nuttiness you and the others are soaking in. I ... by TB 2011-10-14 15:06:24
This isn't it, and I believe there is a revolution brewing. Briefly, there are six contributing factors. First, the increase ... by bowser 2011-10-13 00:16:07
- Nice that the two of you aren't trying to drown the conversation in the bathtub. by Robert 2011-10-13 11:06:24
  - "Human communities" post moved to front of this thread. by ER 2011-10-13 18:06:15
    - If you misplace a post, it's easy to move it in the current system (basically erase the old one and ... by TB 2011-10-13 18:46:14
      - Unless, of course, the moved post has been replied to, then it is a whole different matter. A couple of ... by podrock 2011-10-13 19:23:02
        
        I've been a little loose about marking edits. I have a time period of about three minutes after I ... by TB 2011-10-13 19:29:20
        
        Sort of like the "five second rule" about dropped food. Fine with me, as long as it is fine with ... by podrock 2011-10-13 19:55:52
        
        I have been drifting down the threads and "trimming" some of my old comments by using the paragraph command to ... by TB 2011-10-15 12:23:04
  - An interesting synthesis of our two posts, with a reasonable proposal to avoid the most dire of our outcomes. ... by bowser 2011-10-13 17:48:30
    - Ouch: Comparing me to The Conceder? by Robert 2011-10-14 08:59:20
      - This post takes me completely by surprise. First, I admire Obama enormously, for his patience, for his efforts to ... by bowser 2011-10-14 12:28:19
        
        "Jingoism?" "Majority?" Can we get a count on that? by TB 2011-10-14 12:41:10
        
        Not on this board, TB. Heck, my post above stands a high risk of being edited. But I ... by bowser 2011-10-14 12:53:53
        
        Friend, nobody here is screwing with anybody else's posts. Nobody is likely to. Buck did a couple of ... by TB 2011-10-14 13:23:59
        
        Gee, TB. You say it's not done, not likely to be done, and has been done. And I know it's ... by bowser 2011-10-14 14:01:10
        
        If someone has changed or clipped a post of yours on this board without your permission, flag it, tell us ... by TB 2011-10-14 14:11:00
  - Basically you're talking large scale gerrymandering by TB 2011-10-13 11:46:30
    - Impressive how you manage to shoehorn the end of America into conventional partisan terms. by Robert 2011-10-14 09:28:29
      - You propose dividing the nation up specifically by political ideology and are surprised by the idea that these "nations" would ... by TB 2011-10-14 09:46:54
        
        No I didn't. by Robert 2011-10-14 11:27:00
        
        Sorry, now you're just ducking and weaving. by TB 2011-10-14 11:46:23
        
        P.S. by TB 2011-10-14 10:26:23
- I've often disagreed with many of your posts, feeling they were a bit too extreme for my views, but I ... by ER 2011-10-13 05:56:36
Okay, let me see if I'm following this right: by TB 2011-10-12 17:22:47
"Map of US Militias"> by FrankC 2011-10-12 16:56:41
- Scale problem by Robert 2011-10-12 17:15:38
  - Try this map. Feel free to zoom in on the cities. by TB 2011-10-12 18:34:01
    - LOL by FrankC 2011-10-12 19:14:32
  - A scale problem...you got that right. by Lee 2011-10-12 18:02:50

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