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Why is the Democrat/Republican split by state so overwhelmingly geographical, with the exception of two anomalies, all of the central states are red and without exception all of the coastal states are blue. Why?

2008 United States presidential election results by county, on a color spectrum from Democratic blue to Republican red
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Gastner_map_purple_byarea_bycounty.png

The makeup of the electoral colleges skews this too this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Simple2008PresElections-USA-states.png/800px-Simple2008PresElections-USA-states.png

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