It plays out in fierce partisan divides within Congress and state governments; our mapping of red and blue political geographies, the racially segregated neighborhoods throughout the country and subsequent divides in health, well-being, incarceration rates, employment and educational opportunities and wealth.
I ached for the day when I too would know the answers to questions in all of the categories: "Geography" (blue), "Entertainment" (pink), "History" (yellow), "Arts and Literature" (brown), "Science and Nature" (green), and "Sports and Leisure" (orange).
The pair wanted to create an alternative to Scrabble and, within an hour, devised a game with a six-spoked, circular board and six categories of trivia question, each designated by a coloured segment – arts and literature (brown), science and nature (green), entertainment (pink), geography (blue), history (yellow) and sports and leisure (orange).
Cameron "the blue riband of scientific geography," its principal gold medal of the year.
Tory blue reappeared in Scottish electoral geography in May (see map); and in rural areas, where SNP yellow is strongest, the Tories are the principal challengers.
The thin blue line divides not just geography and class, as the Rampart report suggests and as Zinzun and others knew all too well.
Others explain Connecticut's hospitality to the blues as an accident of geography.
'The geography of the blues,' Scorsese says, 'is both a route to a particular time and place as well as a road map to the human soul.
Austin is a remarkably laid-back place, with all the advantages of being a blue city in a red state.Third, geography counts for a lot.
In that decade, strands of American music that had been isolated by class, race and geography--jazz, country, blue grass, blues, pop--came together and cross-pollinated.
