dmv wrote:

Now here's something curious: The Map from the NYT shows the various increases in bankruptcy rates on a county by county basis. The results were not exactly what I would have suspected, given how various counties voted in the last Presidential election:

Is it just me, or are is the map above surprisingly similar to those red/blue maps we saw so much of right after the election?

The really curious thing is that the Gore voters from 2000 are filing for less bankruptcies since 2000, while the Bush voters are filing for more. (Does that make any sense to you?)

The comment about how few people can afford to vote Republican? Done in graphical form.

Here's what I don't understand. The areas where bankruptcy had a lower incidence voted democrat (mostly) yet the republicans are the ones making it harder to declare. In other words, the wishful thinkers vote republican because they wish they had enough money to be republican? There's a disconnect here, and it's exploitable.

RE: The Big Picture: Insolvency Epidemic