Decision Desk just rolled out a new 2016 election map, this one by precinct. Given there is no national database at that level, it took serious shoeleather to assemble.
It shows the blue islands are being swallowed.

Now, why do I care? I live in a blue state that is committing North Korea like suicide economically. $15 minimum wage, more feel good regulation, sanctuary state, anarchist pothole brigades.
I see the local politics getting quite extreme in these little Venezuelas without the Oil and it may be time to skedaddle across the Columbia to a blue state that has more brakes on the insanity than Oregon.
I would like to think it may turn around, but I fear not. Taxes will go up, protected groups will victimize the normals and the whole thing will turn out like a bad Tom Petty song.
Can the Gen X elites find enough sense to fix this or is it all doomed to crash and make us all flee to the Red States , or try and be annexed?
I have a feeling I may move, but rent, and keep the assets mobile and liquid. Heck, I lose a 10% tax just crossing the river.
What is the outlook from you other blue state resistors or you red state denizens? Is it still going to hell or will the states start to turn away from the death grip of the progressives?



From the Soviet State of Illinois – no respite.
Michael Madigan controls the state House and has for decades. He pretty much rules the state from there. We have a republican governor who is trying to bring fiscal sense to a state on the brink of bankruptcy. No cigar. Madigan won’t budge. An inch.
Of course he has installed his daughter as State Attorney, so he has free rein without being prosecuted or even investigated for anything.
So it’s business as usual.
I would like to move to Dallas, where my daughter lives, but my wife is adamant on staying here. And I DO love my house. Still…
Waiting for the downstate democrats to realize they are really republicans probably will take my life.
C’Mon down Dev. You would make a fine Texan.
If I became a Texan would I have to wear a ten gallon sock.
No, I am seriously thinking of taking a week or so off, coming down to my daughter’s house and doing some real house searching. Don’t care so much about bedrooms and such, but gotta be big enough to store my guns and cars.
add @me.com to my call sign here and let me know your schedule.
Thanks. When I do this, I’ll let you know.
Oh come on down! You can get twice the house for the same money, or better yet, a similar house for half the money! Plus no state income tax, and better property taxes. We’ve been solid red for a very long time with no possibility of going blue.
Don’t be fooled by Dallas when you get there. Take a drive over to Fort Worth and see the real Texas.
I used to get out there from time to time, to the JRB. I’m looking at FTW as my primary destination for a return this year or next, to come live.
BTW, I ran across that map about 30′ ago in another place. The article had that and a couple other interesting maps. Seems Obummer has done more to trash the democrat party than any before him.
Link?
https://decisiondeskhq.com/data-dives/about-our-neighborhood-interactive-map/
to actually play with the map by precinct
https://decisiondeskhq.com/data-dives/creating-a-national-precinct-map/
That big blue blob in the southwest is Navajo, Zuni and, maybe Paiute. That’s my best guess.
Florida- great weather despite an occasional hurricane, no state tax, negligible property taxes. Plus you can choose a 4 seasons climate (No FL), a two seasons climate (SW FL), urban chic (Miami) or a really laid back lifestyle where shoes are not mandatory anywhere (The Keys). :)
I should visit Florida more often. Haven’t been there since ’91.
If you ever make it to SW Fla, you know we’d be happy to put you up! (To no good probably…)
Ha! I’m sure I’d have a blast. :-)
Wait! I’ve had it on good authority that FL is just a sponge floating in the Caribbean. You stomp hard on the “ground” – you get water. ;-o)
Nah; you’re speaking of the Everglades. If I had the time, I would work arduously against the EPA to pave over that nasty haven for mosquitoes, gators, pythons, rattlesnakes, and cottonmouths.
We have a lot of great wild life in Florida but J’adore the avian element. I have officially become a geekish bird watcher and even… don’t hate me… received an award from the city for providing an ‘ecologically friendly environment’ for blue jays, robins, cardinals, finches, and butterflies.
I have a koi pond and very vocal tree frogs that annoy the neighbors. Unfortunately, my yard was also attracting woodpeckers that can create some major damage to the physical home but my territorial blue jays chased them off!
I’m jealous of your far superior climate for a koi pond. Here in Oregon I have to keep a backup generator to keep the water flowing during ice storm power outages. My fish line up like cordwood in the bottom of the deep end for the coldest months of winter. I use watering trough heaters designed for livestock to keep the surface from freezing solid and capturing harmful exhalations from the fish. It’s coming back to life now. Fish are eating and the surrounding plantings are springing. More redwing blackbirds this year for some reason, and the traveling band of bush tits has fewer members. My new fly-through wild bird feeder is a big hit with the mourning doves. And, lastly, we have a demented Robin that keeps crashing into a couple of our windows.
Wow! You have your hands full during the winter. I had a problem with egrets snacking on my baby koi until I finally put in a shelter of sorts at he bottom of the pond where they can hide. Jeez, it’s a jungle out there. :)
I’m spending Easter at my cousin’s place in the Tri-Cities. It was sunny and a balmy 61 degrees today.
I used to like you.
Heh!
I love maps, and I really love these kinds of maps. Thanks for posting.
This is also a map of several geologic features. The one that stands out most immediately is the Piedmont, which by definition stops in just about Georgia, but which in effect wraps around the southern end of the Appalachians as the ancient chalky shoreline of a long-receded ocean. The truly coastal region of the eastern seaboard south of PA is necessarily east (or in GA, south) of the “fall line”, which is a rapid rise in elevation, if travelling from the sea toward the mountains. Rivers to the fall line tend to be navigable only up to that point, and cities sprang up there as inland trading hubs and industrial processing centers. Plantation work by blacks saw the congregated in the lowlands and the Piedmont, while Emancipation, and a series of “Great Migrations” saw American blacks move north and west, or at least to the nearby cities which for the most part had grown up along the fall line.
The big blue blob of Indian reservation land is also geologic in origin, but in a different way. It is the most worthless land, and therefore a double-whammy as reservation bait. It was both the last to be approached by white settlement and the least objectionable to forsake for a reservation.
The southern border, with its high Mexican percentage is defined by a great river and another expanse of useless land, the miserable (but beautiful) desert stretching from the West Texas badlands to the Sierra Madre.
So there are three demographic groups whose location depends heavily (one way or another) upon three geologic phenomena.
Another two are the Northern New Mexico patronage and land-grant democrat machine (intersects the blob), and the Denver metroplex (north of the former).
Finally, there is WANE contingent, White Assholes from New England, whose early history includes spreading laterally westward, which is why so many towns from Bath, Ohio to Portland, Oregon on the same parallel of latitude all look, feel, and vote like WANE. They were colonized.
Perfect! Love WANE