A Tale Of Two Americas: Trump Vs. Clinton; Maps Show Where They Got Their Votes

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SOURCE: ZERO HEDGE

URL: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-17/tale-two-americas-trump-vs-clinton


For many Americans, it feels as if the 2016 election split the country in two.

To visualize this, we took the election results and created two new imaginary nations by slicing the country along the sharp divide between Republican and Democratic Americas.



Meanwhile, Hillary derived her support from the large coastal cities of the Northeast and West coast which comprise the other 15% of the country's land area.



While Harry Reid and a litany of disaffected media pundits and celebrities have lashed out at the electoral college over the past week, the images above illustrate perfectly why it is so fundamental to our democracy.  The entire purpose of the electoral college was to prevent massive centralized population centers (e.g. New York City, Los Angeles & San Francisco) from imposing their will upon the rest of the country and it seems to have worked just as intended in the 2016 election.

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Hillary Clinton overwhelmingly won the cities, like Los Angeles, Chicago and New York City, but Mr. Trump won many of the suburbs, isolating the cities in a sea of Republican voters.

Mrs. Clinton’s island nation has large atolls and small island chains with liberal cores, like college towns, Native American reservations and areas with black and Hispanic majorities. While the land area is small, the residents here voted for Mrs. Clinton in large enough numbers to make her the winner of the overall popular vote.

Land Area

Clinton’s America

15% 530,000 square miles

Trump’s America

85% 3,000,000 square miles

Population

Clinton’s America

54% 174 million

Trump’s America

46% 148 million