Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor StateOn the night of the 2000 presidential election, Americans watched on television as polling results divided the nation's map into red and blue states. Since then, the colour divide has become symbolic of a culture war that thrives on stereotypespickup driving red state Republicans who vote based on God, guns, and gays; and elitist blue state Democrats woefully out of touch with heartland values. With wit and prodigious number crunching, Andrew Gelman