The thing about the South is certainly noticeable when you see it on an election map...but what about "cowboy country" out West? It appears to me that Bush has the cowboy vote pretty much sewn up. Looks like the John Wayne mentality still rules anwhar whar ya got big skies, small towns, and pick-up trucks with gun racks. Yee-haw! We gonna ee-lect ourselves a good ol' boy from Texas and go kick raghead ass! "Shoot first, think later."

It kind of works that way in Canada too. The most gungho conservative region of the country is Alberta...THE cowboy province in this here confederation. Them Alberta cowboys would rather wrassle with a skunk than vote fer a liberal! They would privatize sunlight if they could figure out how to corral it. And what is their primary source of wealth? Oil. Alberta has lots of it. Albertans are perenially so frustrated with the seemingly natural liberal tendencies of most of the rest of Canada that they would like to secede and join the USA. If they did, you'd have one more set of electoral votes for Bush, I guess. As for the rest of this country, forget it. Bush is a dead duck up here.