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1. the Mississippi River via the Minnesota River,
2. the Mississippi River via the St. Croix River,
3. via the Great Lakes to the St. Lawrence lowlands to the Atlantic,
4. via the Lake Ojibway to the Ottawa river to the St. Lawrence lowlands,
5. the Hudson Bay

Source: Lake Agassiz - Wikipedia

Each state is connected to its two closest matches based on the average difference in presidential margins across elections from 1912 to 2024. Node size shows how often a state is selected as another state’s top two match; thicker/darker lines indicate reciprocal top two matches. Groups are created by greedy modularity maximization algorithm. Node position and physical distance have no quantitative meaning

Deep blue metro areas:	Margins > D+ 25
San Francisco	D+51.86
Washington, DC	D+40.10
San Jose	D+38.97
Seattle	D+35.51
Portland, OR	D+29.31
Boston	D+28.10
Chicago	D+25.40
Philadelphia	D+25.30
Minneapolis	D+25.20
Blue metro areas:	D+25 to D+15
Los Angeles	D+24.69
Baltimore	D+23.30
Denver	D+21.40
Austin	D+20.40
Hartford	D+20.40
San Diego	D+16.79
Raleigh	D+16.30
Tucson	D+15.20
Moderately blue metro areas	D+ 15 to D + 5
New York City	D+14.70
Atlanta	D+13.90
Richmond	D+13.40
Virginia Beach	D+10.20
Sacramento	D+9.54
Cleveland	D+9.50
Providence	D+9.20
Rochester	D+8.50
Detroit	D+7.10
Salt Lake City	D+7.00
Memphis	D+6.50
Buffalo	D+5.10
Columbus	D+5.00
Slightly blue metro areas	D+4.9 to D+0.1
Milwaukee	D+3.40
Kansas City	D+2.60
Las Vegas	D+2.60
Orlando	D+1.20
Miami	D+1.10
St. Louis	D+0.20
Slightly red metro areas	R+0.1 to R+5
Charlotte	R+1.30
Riverside	R+1.66
Indianapolis	R+3.40
Omaha	R+3.50
Pittsburgh	R+4.50
Moderately red metro areas	R+ 5 to R + 15
San Antonio	R+5.40
Phoenix	R+5.60
DFW	R+6.40
Louisville	R+6.60
Fresno	R+6.74
Grand Rapids	R+8.20
Houston	R+8.30
Tampa	R+10.40
Red Metro areas	R+15 to R+25
Cincinnati	R+15.30
Nashville	R+17.50
Oklahoma City	R+18.10
Jacksonville	R+18.20
Birmingham	R+19.80
Deeply Red Metro areas	>R+25
Tulsa	R+28.90

Source: Wikipedia - US census definitions for each metro areas and their combined margins. Calculated from aggregating individual counties

Source:  Wikipedia - US census definitions for each metro areas and their combined margins. Calculated from aggregating individual counties

Source: View Point of Mount Adams & Mount Rainer (U.S. National Park Service)

It's so ominous and alien