Clarity through distortion
The ultraconservative news website NewsMax.com is offering shirts and mousepads that misappropriate scientific images to distort political truths.
The folks at NewsMax.com know full well their audience prefers to see things in stark terms, regardless of the situation's reality, so they comfortably avoid publication of any of the other maps produced during a University of Michigan study by Michael Gastner, Cosma Shalizi, and Mark Newman.
When the country is viewed as cartogram, a process where state boundaries are distorted based on population density, a clear picture emerges:
When the country is viewed as cartogram, a process where state boundaries are distorted based on population density, a clear picture emerges:
And if conservatives hate maps like that one imagine how they feel about one like this:
Or worse yet, this:
Things aren't black and white or red and blue.
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