Geography of United States Elections | Course Introduction
Professor Martin Lewis provides an overview of the Geography of United States Elections. Starting on October 15, you can follow a timely course being presented by Stanford University. Led by Martin Lewis, this map-intensive course will explore the geography of US elections (both past and present), and challenge the suggestion that we are simply divided into a “Red America” and “Blue America.” It’s really much more complicated than that. Offered by Stanford’s Continuing Studies program, the course will last five weeks, and include a debrief after the presidential election. Each Wednesday, we will post a new recorded lecture on youtube. Geography of US Elections Course Website: geog05.stanford.edu Stanford Continuing Studies: csp.stanford.edu Stanford Channel on youtube: www.youtube.com
March 4th, 2010 at 9:39 pm
Free trade provided the freedom for productive enterprise to flee government tyranny and its harmful effects on the economy. Free trade is a moral imperative. It holds government accountable for the damage government is doing to our economy. Without free trade there would be less jobs, not more.
March 4th, 2010 at 10:26 pm
Outsourcing was a rational response to high taxes, burdensome regulation, and forced unionization. Outsourcing was caused by democrat policies. Red states, however, have higher employment growth and lower unemployment than blue states.
March 4th, 2010 at 10:31 pm
Meanwhile, how about this Stanford course itself? Because, y’know, that’s really what this comment area was meant for…
March 4th, 2010 at 10:31 pm
well, i found a better source and outsourcing partly took place because of expanding free trade in other countries, so ill give you that. but red states and blue states are equally bad when it comes to unemployment
March 4th, 2010 at 11:27 pm
To look at the results of the last 30 years of deregulation and conservative economic policies and the resulting massive “Great Recession” and to conclude that what we need is *more* conservative economic policies… Wow. That is to truly deny reality.
March 5th, 2010 at 12:27 am
excellent work!
March 5th, 2010 at 1:24 am
We seriously need to start voting for Presidents that will follow the Constitution and also repel all unconstitutional laws!
If we do not, we will see more taxes more spending and more government regulations. We’re losing our rights on a daily basis. Hopefully, we can change that in 2010 and 2012 so we can live with less government corruption.
Watch my videos on Ron Paul if you want to see what a real politician should act like.
March 5th, 2010 at 2:41 am
lmao red and blue are meaningless now (and always were)
March 5th, 2010 at 4:38 am
the rust belt collapsed because of outsourced, cheap foreign labor in processing and manufactruing. and of course the sunbelt will be a force, its a third of the country. still, everywhere is in a recession right now, so i guess no one’s policies worked that well
March 5th, 2010 at 7:25 am
people in cities vote democrat because they are stuck in there little cubicles all day long never able to have a grasp on life.