Altered Maps XII: Not to Scale

[CELTICEMPIRE]

That map doesn't make much sense unless blue is Republican.

David Leip's election Atlas does that, it's really weird.

 

[TheLastOne36]

Correct me if I am wrong but weren't the Dems red and the Reps blue a while back?

 

[JohannaK]

They were, but I would like to know when did they swap colours.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

When the USSR collapsed ?
It'd make sense.

 

[Leoreth]

They were, but I would like to know when did they swap colours.

I don't know how accurate this is, but I've read once that the current identification of Democrats = blue and Republicans = red is a fairly recent phenomenon that was only consistently adopted by the media in the 2000 elections and afterwards embraced by the parties themselves. Supposedly, while red and blue were used most of the time, the media weren't consistent in which party they referred to even during the same election cycle, or identified a certain color with the incumbent party and the other with the challenging one in presidential election (don't know which respectively, though). Of course the whole thing mattered even less in the days before colorful maps were shown on screen.

 

[hoplitejoe]

They were, but I would like to know when did they swap colours.

Post 12000000

 

[JohannaK]

Post 12000000

Really?

Party at my place to celebrate it!

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I don't know how accurate this is, but I've read once that the current identification of Democrats = blue and Republicans = red is a fairly recent phenomenon that was only consistently adopted by the media in the 2000 elections and afterwards embraced by the parties themselves. Supposedly, while red and blue were used most of the time, the media weren't consistent in which party they referred to even during the same election cycle, or identified a certain color with the incumbent party and the other with the challenging one in presidential election (don't know which respectively, though). Of course the whole thing mattered even less in the days before colorful maps were shown on screen.

This is pretty much entirely correct JoanK.

 

[potatokiosk]

Richard Nixon Beats JFK.

On that map blue (Nixon) has 266 electoral votes, not enough to win. The House of Representatives would have picked Kennedy. In David Liep's "Nixon wins" scenario Nixon also wins Missouri, giving him a majority in the electoral college.

 

[Mango Elephant]

I made a map based on some data. It was supposed to be for the Guess the Map Thread, but I couldn't find it. I'll show it to you and give you hints, and you can see how long it'll take to get (I think it's pretty hard). Both Hawaii and Alaska would be blue.

Hint 1:

Spoiler :

It has to do with language.

Hint 2:

Spoiler :

It has to do with a European language that's not English.

Hint 3:

Spoiler :

It has to do with the genders of the states in that language.

Final Answer:

Spoiler :

The countries in red are feminine in French, the countries in blue are masculine in French.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Ah dammit, shouldn't have put the spoilers in, I knew I could resist opening them all

 

[madviking]

Arizona nor Alabama is feminine?

 

[JohannaK]

Damn, y u put spoilers.

 

[WindFish]

Tbh

I was going to with the states that English as a minority language.

 

[JohannaK]

I don't really know, but I think that no minority-majority state is red.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Tbh

I was going to with the states that English as a minority language.

I don't think there are any states with English as a minority language.

 

[Mango Elephant]

Ah dammit, shouldn't have put the spoilers in, I knew I could resist opening them all

Damn, y u put spoilers.

Mah bahd, y'all.

Arizona nor Alabama is feminine?

No, here's the list I used. - http://french.about.com/od/vocabulary/a/usstates.htm

It's interesting how New York is still New York, but New Mexico becomes Nouveau-Mexique, especially considering how in English we pronounce less known French places the same as in French, but only anglicize the bigger places.

 

[Marla_Singer]

Final Answer:

Spoiler :

The countries in red are feminine in French, the countries in blue are masculine in French.

As a matter of fact, the rule is fairly easy. If the state or country ends with an "e", then it's feminine. If it ends with another letter, then it's masculine. The rule also applies for most countries (the notable exception being those ending in -ique such as Mexique or Mozambique, which are masculine).

All the red states ends with an "e" in French :
Californie, Floride, Louisiane, Géorgie, Caroline, Virginie.


There may be few exceptions though : "New Hampshire", "Maine" and "Tennessee". But that because they aren't translated in French (we use the original English names to denominate them). This is not the case for any of those mentioned above.

 

[ace99]

If I had to do the Palestine partition this is how I would have done it, with green as Palestine and white as Israel based off population distribution and numbers in 1947.

 

[Winner]

Because that would surely work.