wedding road trip

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:

1. Jaime may be a red-stater, and I may be a blue-stater (as suggested in the great Flat Tax Debate), and
2. 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.