Purple Hearts

By Marcus O'Donnell • Nov 10th, 2004 • Category: Journalism and the media

US Graphic designer Jeff Culver has come up with a far more informative electoral map than those published by mainstream media.

It is an interesting example of how the graphic devices and rhetorical frames that we use actually construct very different narratives. While the election maps which show the blue and red states (say this example from Time) show a divided America with the red states in the ascendency, Culver’s map which shows the gradations of support for Bush and Kerry along a set of hues from red to blue portrays quite a different reality.

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Marcus O'Donnell is a journalist, and academic, after years in the inner city he now lives by the sea
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