Reply #15: Wow - thinking about your comment [View All]

[salin]

I may have come up with a new (albiet silly) theory about the red/blue divide. Not a north south thing (as my state demonstrates)... A humidity mixed with higher temps thing.

Follow me- my response to your post... no shiver, no kidding - oh how I dread the coming heat and humidity of the summer. And oh how I miss the Bay Area (SF region) weather.

Then... wait... think about it... the humidity makes us cranky... add higher heat areas and those without lake effects (eg Ill., Mich, etc) which blows the humidty - when at its worst - out more quickly rather than having it linger for endless weeks in a row... perhaps makes more people perpetually cranky and prone to being mean (and the current GOP seems to have an unbridled mean streak to it these days.) So central south and eastern south... heat and high humidity... check. Some central midwest... high humidity with peaks of heat... check. Go east still humid but the further north you go it doesn't combine as much with the levels of heat and swelter of its southern counterparts (eg Mass compared to Ga)...

Maybe there is something to this?? ;-)