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.