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KBIA's coverage of all the elections going on in mid-Missouri and the nation for 2012.

Not just a red state

A screenshot of WNYC's interactive voting map
WNYC
A screenshot of WNYC's interactive voting map

Missouri is by all accounts  a "red state"  but it's plain to see that one or two colors can't tell the whole story.  How can one color, one category, make sense of the diversity of communities we see around us every day?  The folks at Patchwork Nation and the public radio station WNYC think they have a better way: they look at voters in each county and then slice up the numbers 12 different ways.  Some counties are what might be called, the "Monied 'Burbs."  Others are "Tractor Countries" or "Mormon Outposts."  12 demographics, 12 sets of values, opinions and personalities.  

Patchwork Nation gathered the data and WNYC put it together in this live-updating map:

Check back as the votes roll in to see how each community voted!

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