While I never root for the University of Michigan in sports events, I have to give some University of Michigan faculty a thumbs-up for this site. I encourage you to take a look at it. Here's a couple of the verrrrrry interesting things they show . . .
Here's what we're used to looking at:

If you look at the same map based on population and not topographic size, here's what it looks like:

Amazingly, many of the blue states look like one of those gas-aid commercials where the folks, eating at a diner, bloat up! California, Illinois and New York look especially bloated! Suddenly, the whole damn country doesn't look like it's gone to hell-in-a-Republican-handbasket!
Again, check out the site.
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