If Minnesota had the UK parties

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I was bored.

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Yes. I wish I knew more about what type of rural areas vote LibDem.

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For the record I basically assumed that blacks would vote Labour, and on the basis of the area they're mostly in, I had Jews voting Lib Dem. I have no clue how Jews actually vote in the UK.

Come to think of, those inner-city Minneapolis seats would probably elect far-left anti-war Labour MPs rather than Lib Dems. Hmmm...Southwest Minneapolis would definitely be a Lib Dem stronghold though (too wealthy to vote Labour, too latte liberal for the Tories.)

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Yes. I wish I knew more about what type of rural areas vote LibDem.

Cornwall votes straight LibDem (always has), and certain parts of Scotland and Wales do as well.

Hmmm, maybe swath of red in west central Minnesota should be yellow then. It is an agrian, not industrial area...

Jews vote Tory, BTW.

Ha. Well St. Louis Park certainly wouldn't.

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I'll redo this tommorow or possibly even tonight, but I can see some rural areas that would see Labour as the party of Twin Cities socialists but the Tories as the party of the suburban plutocrats. Maybe there's an equivalent.

And Canada too possibly. I'll just say Northern Minnesota is basically identical to the parts of Canada that vote NDP. I'm not sure if any rural areas would vote Liberal though, we don't seem to have any (I suppose that's not just not the nature of the area, New England certainly would have some for example.)

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What I looked at in the map originally was what rural areas Ventura did best in (after all it wasn't really his policies a lot of people were voting for with Ventura, it was basically the whole attitude of opposing both the Twin Cities DFL and suburban Republican elitists. Which is kind of ironic because both the Twin Cities and the suburbs voted for Ventura as well, but still there's a reason Sibley county liked him so much.)

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Re the deleted (while I was reading ) NI post. That would be way fun! ELCA (especially if affluent) = UUP, fundie prots (especially if poor) =DUP. Although I suppose (short of South Belfast - middle class Catholics) it'd be impossible to find something to tell SF and SDLP seats apart on...

Heh, I deleted it do my new thread. Maybe I will do that tonight after all. I think Sinn Fein would dominate eastern St. Paul but would be virtually nonexistant elsewhere. The tough thing would be those ultra-conservative Catholic areas in central and southern Minnesota.

Nicollet County would be especially interesting. North Mankato (50/50 voting on class) + St. Peter (liberal Protestants) + everywhere else (ultra-conservative Catholics.)