Electoral College Road Trip
Just for fun, I put together The World’s Most Basic Map of our Wedding Road Trip stops.
(NOTE: I’m an urban planner, and yes I can make decent maps, but there’s a limit to what I can do with Microsoft Paint, which is the most advanced graphics program on my personal laptop.)
I then color-coded the stops by asking the question - at the ceremony, would these people sit on Jaime’s side or my side? That is, do we know them originally through Chris (blue dots), or Jaime (pink - the girly color).
We seem to have some regional trends. Jaime dominates the South, Great Plains, and Mountain states, while my people are mostly in the Midwest and Northeast, and we split the Pacific Northwest. This suggests two things:
- Jaime may be a red-stater, and I may be a blue-stater (as suggested in the great Flat Tax Debate), and
- If this was a presidential race, it would be a close election. I need some friends in Virginia so I can pick up its crucial 13 electoral votes.
Of course this is all moot. By the end of the Wedding Road Trip, everyone will be our family and friends, with no pre-nupital to decide who belongs to whom. Although Jaime may decline the option of associating with some of my old college friends.
Tags: planning a road trip, road trip logistics, road trip map, road trip route
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I object to to this map.
1. Cincinnati is not marked, and I have peeps there we are seeing.
2. Las Vegas… mine too. Suspiciously missing.
3. Kansas City, mine too.
4. Philly, mine as well.
5. Your blue dot is covering mine in Seattle, yet we are equally represented there.
6. What in the hell are the gray dots? I have peeps in St. Louis too.
7. I have people in New York- you don’t own that either. And Chicago!!!!
This is obviously biased. I think George W. Bush collaborated with you on this one.
My rebuttal…1-oops, 2-was unclear if we were stopping there (obviously we communicate well), 3-oops, 4-it’s marked! it says Philadelphia above it, and happens to have “New Jersey” pointing at it, 5-tough, 6-deal with it, and 7-I own NYC. Obviously I would make a shadier and more effective politican than you. Vote Chris!
(NOTE: I’m an urban planner, and yes I can make decent maps, but there’s a limit to what I can do with Microsoft Paint, which is the most advanced graphics program on my personal laptop.)
Bad excuse, I would have happily done this as a wedding present…you have embarrassed the GIS world!!
haha, just kidding Chris, you’re stressed I’m sure…. I’ll let this one slide.
Dick Cheney must have come out of his cave to help with this one…
Um, wherefore art the californian dots?
California has officially separated from the union.
Wow how exciting! You guys are covering so much ground. It’s a shame you’re not stopping in Wyoming, though. You’re gonna miss the Museum of the Mountain Man–one of our nation’s finest establishments.
I agree - California has definitely separated from the union. This is a totally surreal state - completely insane. Oregon is looking very nice
nice mom. you’re not helping my red-stater case here.
Ah, but no one took Ohio!
I totally have Ohio- Chris just “forgot” to mark it.
Janet, you know what they say - vote early and vote often.