On that electoral college map California appears as a great blue blob but if one looks at that same map, county by county, wide streaks of red show up that are never seen otherwise. The first black president runs for re-election, and the United States is Gone With the Wind.īut, in fact, it’s the winner-take-all model of the electoral college that’s skewing America into looking like this country that's irreconcilably split - breakaway blue at the edges as if straining to sever its ties with the angry red blotch in the middle. The red-and-blue map of the voting pattern is exactly the same as it was in the 1860s, when the civil war had broken out.Ĭhomsky’s alarm bells are sounding loud and clear. The voting was clearly on racist lines, with the whites voting for Mitt Romney and the non-whites voting for Obama. The election voting map that appeared in the media soon after the results shows the US is in a civil war. The situation is apparently so bleak that Anand Mahindra quips in The Week: Obama… will rule a nation so divided that we may need two visas to visit it.Įven Noam Chomsky wades right into that same red-blue splitsville in the same issue of the magazine.

Under a picture of a cheerily waving Obama, it warns Disunited States of America.

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