This map is a breakdown of the French vote for the European Union. The site that I got this from stated that this map looked familiar in many respects. From what I was able to gleam is that the areas in red are voting no while the areas in blue are voting yes. From the sites that I was able to fin this on, excluding French ones, no one had a a firm grip on whether the red/blue relationship is the same as we use it to some extent. But I doubt this sense the French state has many more political group and it was just a happen stance that they used blue/red instead say yellow/orange. it would seem to me that it is just easier to use red/blue since the colors go well with each other and have been used before. It is interesting to see how the similarities are to he U.S. political map in that the inner areas are red , while the areas near large cities an coastal areas are blue. I would like to see someone give a better break down of the color so that we can see which areas are truly red and blue and which are purple. I believe those types of maps give a better telling of the story and what is going on. I found on one of the sites that the area on the upper right is the area of Brittany and the people seemed confuse on why it was part blue and part red. Seems that most people thought that it should be a solid color.
The only problem I had with finding out information was that I don't read French, so if someone who can read French would try to find out what the colors mean I would appreciate it sine there are a few sites in French that I found it on, but could not read.
