Description: Traditional U.S. electoral maps not only illustrate polarization, they can exacerbate it. No state is strictly red or blue, they are all shades of purple.
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In the United States, no state ever votes 100% Democratic (blue) or 100% Republican (red), and yet this is how we are accustomed to seeing our electoral maps illustrated, despite a 2009 study showing that this can exacerbate polarization. Read more ...