In the past few election cycles, color-coded result maps have developed a very familiar pattern at the county level. They mostly look like seas of Republican red punctuated by small islands of Democratic blue, even in races that end up being close.
Those maps are a sign of a major remaking of American politics over the past few decades, a remarkable deepening of the nation’s political urban/rural divide. And for some Democrats, there are now questions about whether that split is getting too wide. CONTINUED
Dante Chinni, NBC News
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