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The president. shades of red are for romney. the toss-ups are in yellow. some say the breakdown is simplistic and misleading. and a map that truly reflects america would look more like this. showing a patchwork nation, if you will, where the economy, politics and culture break the country down into a wider variety of groups. the patchwork nation project identifies a dozen different types of communities that make up our country. we can focus on ohio, a swing state in 2012, even in this one state seven different categories of counties are represented from service workers to boom towns to evangel...

Places where the employment is in the public sector. and you tell them, we're going to start hitting at your ability to do collective bargaining, they're not going to be happy. that's what we saw in the supreme court election. we'll see how it plays out when it becomes a bigger thing with a allot more turnout. >> are you going to do further drilling down research on this in witness? >> i do. i think wisconsin is the beginning of something. we have speculated for quite some time that these service worker centers are right. we talk about revolutions in american politics.ç i don't think that's ...

Are are. if three republicans actually get beaten by democrats in these recall elections, the senate in wisconsin will become a democratic majority body. it only got as red as it is six months ago. but scott walker and the republican's union stripping thing seems to have fixed all that, and fast. joining us now is dontae chinney, he's director of patchwork nation which is affiliated with pbs. the surprising truth about the real america. thanks for being here. we appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> i know that you are immersed in that date that i just tried to present. i'm a bystander...