Fear and Ignorance

We can explain a few things with visuals... here's a U.S. election map with county detail. Things aren't so red vs. blue now. Note how the rural areas tend to be the most red:

Here's a series of maps taking population and county-level detail into account:

Here's what the map would have looked like if the election were up to voters age 18 to 29:

Here's how states voted, sorted by the state's average IQ: