>>How about mapping voting against GDP per head. Are the economically most productive and well educated parts of the country being dragged along by their stone age bretheren ?
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>I hope that's a tongue in cheek statement.
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>If it isn't, let me remind you of your countryman's classification of millions of people as "the white man's burden."


partly tongue in cheek. As Marcia mentioned urban areas tend to be more liberal . in the UK (on the whole) urban areas where most of the money is made voted to remain in the EU poorer ares voted to leave.