forget the south,

fuck the suburbs.

and the exurbs, too.

it's all about the urbs, baby. the picture below sums it up: only in the cities, and along the mississippi, did the dems do any damage.



read this wonderful polemic to learn more about the promise of life in the american urban archipelago.

maybe i won't have to head south to find an inhabitable island after all.

shit, having domiciled in cambridge, madison, and kingston, i'm practically an islander already.

(thanks to tobias, a montreal-based islander, for pointing me to this piece. it's great to have allies in the great island to the north.)