Genius, I was born and raised in the rural South and have been all over the "Rust Belt," which, foolishly, still remains pretty Blue.   All you have to do is norm the Red places for race and ethnicity and the economic picture looks very different.   There has been a great advantage to the very Blue areas under Comrade Obama because his version of fascism, excuse me, crony capitalism, has poured lots and lots of taxpayer money to his friends in the urban cesspools, but the rest still holds; people with sense and property live in the suburbs and rural areas, not in the urban cesspools.   Even in Anchorage the only places I'll routinely go unarmed are south of Dimond and west of the Sewer.