2024 Presidential Election
County Vote Share Across the United States
When vote share is shown as percentages instead of winner-take-all Red or Blue — where 52% erases 48% — a more realistic view of the U.S. appears: the US is truly a human mosaic of shades of purple. Not us vs them.
Click on a state to see county votes. Click on a county to see the vote percentages.
What We the Purple Actually Agree On
Our lives are far more intertwined than our political leaders, maps, and media have led us to believe. People across the spectrum want the same things —
Safety. Family. Home. Meaningful work.
Peace, no war. A future for their children and grandchildren.
- No one wants elders, children, the disabled, or vets to go without.
- No one wants fraud — federal funds going to the wrong people instead of those they were meant for.
- The need for identity and belonging is real. So is the backlash when people feel their faith and values are dismissed.
Where We Need to Find Common Ground
These are the real numbers — not the loudest voices on either side, but the actual American public.
The Root of the Divide
Abortion is the oldest and deepest of these divisions — and it shapes all the others.
The fight over abortion did not begin with Roe. It did not begin with the Supreme Court. It began in earnest in the 1850s. In 1857, the newly formed American Medical Association launched what historians call one of the most successful public policy campaigns in American history — driven not by medicine or morality, but by race, nativism, and the long held desire for men to own and control women's bodies.
That campaign set the template, the playbook we live today. Divide people using women's bodies. Make them fight each other. Keep the system untouched, but profitting. It worked then. It is working now — on abortion, on LGBTQ rights, on faith, on race, driven and maintained now by the Blue vs Red division. Understanding where this started is how we find our way out.
Read the History — Mothered Infrastructure →The Origin of the Abortion Debate in America
About This Project
About the Map
This interactive map was created using 2024 presidential election data at the county level, sourced from the MIT Election Data Science Lab and Harvard Dataverse. Rather than the winner-take-all red and blue you see in most election maps — where 52% erases 48% — each county is colored by its actual vote share, showing the true spectrum of how Americans voted.
The result is a nation that is overwhelmingly purple. Not divided into two armed camps, but a human mosaic of people who mostly want the same things and disagree on how to get there.
The map was conceived by Janel Mirendah in 2016, after she saw maps by Ryne Rohla that scaled reds and blues separately to show precinct variation. As a lifelong Independent and emerging artist, Janel had the insight to mix the two colors into based on percentages of voters, but found consistency in paint nearly impossible. The art project gestated for nearly a decade, while Janel watched the division between Red and Blue deepen — marketed and weaponized by politicians and special interests. In fall 2024, seeing county-level percentage maps from the Harris/Trump election, she returned to the idea. In 2025 she began working with AI to finally build it. The original color scale was created by Janel with paint.
Data is presented to the best of our knowledge. This site is under active development.
Red and Republican are not the same thing. Blue and Democrat are not the same thing. The color assignment only became fixed after the 2000 election. Before that, networks alternated which color represented which party. The binary was given to us — we didn't choose it.
So the question is: do you want to keep it?
Do you want your identity, your beliefs, your relationships, your sense of safety — defined by two political parties who both answer to the same donors, the same corporate interests, the same financial infrastructure?
Or is there something truer underneath — something purple — that's been there all along?
About the Creator
Janel Mirendah is a somatic practitioner, artist, documentary filmmaker, and systems and civic thinker based in the United States. Her work centers on what gets forgotten and exploited — human babies are sentient — and what gets violated and erased — connection, in the body, in families, and in public life. Remembering when the two parties did not have official color assignments, being an Independent for most of her adult life, and observing the divisive nature of politics since 2000, We the Purple grew out of Janel's simple artist's question in 2016: what if, instead of the divisive either-or, blue vs red narrative, we looked at the actual spectrum of the voters that include all voters?
What does a map about voter percentages in US election have to do with mothering?
Well-mothered humans are the key to healthy, happy, and harmonious humanity. Mothering is the source of human nervous system infrastructure. The presence of a resourced, safe, attentive, and attuned mother builds a nervous system capable of building the world we say we want: just, fair, equal, safe, accessible, kind. No Kings.
A human baby doesn't arrive Democrat or Republican. They arrive hungry, needing warmth, needing to be held skin-to-skin. The red and blue binary begins installation later — by media, by family, by fear, by those who profit from division. The either/or was always a story someone else told. Someone with economic and power agenda.
American mothers and babies are the only ones in the industrialized world without mandated paid leave to support them through their baby's first year. Neither party addresses this. Our disastrous world is a consequence of and a reflection of not supporting, respecting, or funding mothering and human development from conception forward.
The wound has a name. So does the medicine.
As Mothered.US was being developed, a porn site called Motherless.com was making the news — home to millions of videos of non-consensual content. The name is telling, shocking in its accuracy. Reported on in an article by CNN, one substack author called it a "rape academy." A culture that produces and consumes that content is a culture that was never properly mothered — not because mothers are bad, but because mothering is not respected, nor revered, nor funded. The choice to be a mother is not supported.
Mothered.US is a home for changing that story.
Mothered Infrastructure on Substack
Mothered Infrastructure is a framework for understanding why every other system fails. It asks us to see how the internal human infrastructure needed for creating a compassionate, safe, connected human begins with the well-built nervous system. That requires a culture to protect, support, and fund mothering.
Mothered Infrastructure acknowledges that the human nervous system is the original infrastructure. Roads, power plants, schools, governments — all of it is built and operated by humans whose capacity for connection, compassion, trust, and cooperation was either developed or damaged in the first two years of life. How the mother lives is how the baby's nervous system develops. How she attends to the baby wires the emotional brain. The emotional brain — the limbic system — develops in the last trimester through the second year. In those early months, a baby's nervous system is wiring up around one fundamental question: Am I safe? Or am I motherless? Is the world a place that will meet my needs? Am I wanted, seen, felt, heard?
The answer — established through the presence or absence of a safe, responsive, attuned and resourced mother — becomes the foundation for everything that follows. How we attach. How we trust. How we vote. How we treat strangers. How we go to war. Or not.
We build bombs and highways but have never funded mothering — the most important and yet most devalued work there is. We debate policy but do not address the pre-political wiring that shapes who we become before we can speak.
This deeper work lives at Mothered Infrastructure on Substack — where Janel writes about the intersection of nervous system science, pre- and perinatal psychology, birth trauma and attachment, systems reform, connection, and civic life, and what it means to actually care for one another. Follow along.
This website is under development. Data is sourced from publicly available polling and election results including MIT Election Data Science Lab, PRRI, Pew Research Center, Becket Fund, AP-NORC, and Gallup. All statistics are presented to the best of our knowledge and will be updated as the site grows.
Connecticut Is Purple
2024 Presidential Election — Vote Share by Town
Connecticut abolished county government in 1960. Towns are the real political unit. Shown as actual vote percentages — not winner-take-all — the same truth appears: we are not two tribes.