This blog began in 2003 as Mrs. Rabbitt's Bookbag and continued as From the Library Director from 2005-2010. You can read my newspaper columns at FromtheLibraryColumn published Thursdays in the Norwood Transcript and Bulletin.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Patchwork Nation

The Christian Science Monitor has announced the launch of a new election site, the Patchwork Nation. The CSM says that this site
"offers a fresh approach to covering politics."
"Funded by the Knight Foundation, a nonprofit philanthropic organization, the new website replaces the conventional red-state/blue-state maps with one that examines the election through the lens of 11 different types of communities around the country."
Much of New England fits into one category, "the monied burbs" with the exception of upper New Hampshire, Western Massachusetts and the states of Vermont and Maine. The site is much more than the map, however, and a look outside of our box.