The more I travel around, the more I am convinced that there really is only one America--except for the white south, which seems… different from the rest of us in striking and peculiar ways.
I mean, if you look at the demographic composition of a locality--white and nonwhite, rich and poor, educated and less-educated--those three factors alone will get you very far in determining what Obama's vote share is going to be in that region.
It just works.
Except for the white south, where things are very different...