Stark Rural-urban contrast in midterms

just read the headline on rawstory-it seems to have grown immensly

The link already disappeared so u get this

(SALON)
salon
So, this endless, messy, nasty, over-analyzed, and overly expensive election season is finally finished. And, after all the hoopla, and despite all of the big promises of incoming Speaker John Boehner, we’re heading not for decisive GOP governance but for stalemate -- again. One house Republican, the other Democrat, with a president left unable to pursue his more grandiose domestic agenda but perfectly able to marshal his forces to prevent the Republicans from enacting theirs.

There's a lot of talk of the "revolutionary" nature of the Republican victory in the House, and only a fool would deny that the GOP did very, very well in this election. Nearly one-quarter of all Democratic members of Congress lost their seats, while the GOP picked up Senate seats and won a number of important governors’ races, too.

But if you dig deeper and look at where the GOP won and by what numbers, it’s actually rather similar to what the House looked like 10 years ago; the coasts are still blue, most of the heartland is red, the big cities are blue, the suburbs and rural counties overwhelmingly red.