Purple States
The United States is less divided than common maps portray.
As promised, a map of the United States showing division by voters, rather than electoral college outcomes, from purplestatesofamerica.org/. I am very surprised by the outcome, and if the election was closer, confirmation bias might take me towards conspiracy theory. But we have no evidence that the voting system was hacked at scale. Bomb threats, closing polling places early, and other election day shenannigans don’t lead to a multi-million vote spread.
There’s a lot of talk about “red states” vs “blue states,” and in reality, while our divisions may be stark, and there’s even evidence that people are moving in polarized ways, we can create political systems that either magnify or minimize those effects. The Electoral College, with its set of winner-take-all contests, is a now a system where there a very few states whose outcome isn’t practically pre-ordained, and that magnifies polarization.