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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
I would quibble on the details of the map, as the borders are not hard but soft overlaps. For example, New York City does not reall fit the foundry concept, unless you consider the stock market a foundry, and all of Texas is one big overlap of 1, 2, 4, and 7....
And it doesn't cover the urban/rural dichomy. Los Angeles and New York City and Boston have more in common, than Dallas and San Angelo, 400 KMs away. Look at the 2004 county by county map of the presidential campaign to see what I mean....
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One of the things I like about this map (which did come out in 1981, and is somewhat dated by now) is that it doesn't attempt to divide regions by only two large, but themselves not homogeneous, political parties, or by any other bipolar category such as urban vs. rural regions. One can certainly quibble about details of the map, but I think the concept is sound. (And having been in both LA and Boston, I don't see much resemblance between them.)