Entrepreneurs like Bush

Small Business Trends: Entrepreneurship, Rural America, and Elections

Um this is a stretch. No it's more than a stretch... it's Elastagirl.

Here's the entrepreneur map of America:



and here's the voter county by county trends (USA today source I think):




The theory is that rural America is a big fan of Bush because it:
has a certain blend of economic and personal self-sustainability to which the Republican message appeals particularly.
Ok, I will grant you the following potentially logical fallacies which this theory seems to forward:
  1. Farmers are not considered self-employed and/or farmers are not only located in rural areas because that is an area of the country in which they can actually do their trade
  2. All counties have equal population density and therefore large red areas have more people than small blue areas
  3. All people in the Republican areas are entirely Republicans (and vice versa) OR
    All Democrats in the Republican areas were not self-employed (and vice versa)
  4. All Red areas are equivalently red, all green areas are equivalently green and all yellow areas are equivalently yellow.
  5. Success rate of these entrepreneurs in all areas is the same
Even with all that, I do not think the conclusion the author puts forward is accurate! She basically takes a rough look at the map and makes her decision. Maybe I should not be so critical about a fairly straightforward page, but stuff like this really has a life of its own... no one ever knows how broadly it gets published.