This has been going around the net for a week or so.  One Bob Morris created it – and that might be Bob Morris, President, Leica Geosystems GIS & Mapping / Technological Advancements Imagery Processing and Distribution – or not.  It has moved into de facto public domain with his copyright release at the bottom.

And Rick, The News Guy in Atlanta, where the effects of such things are felt, comments on it – "This is wonderful! It's like I keep saying, but nobody will listen: Jesus was a liberal!"  (See August 8, 2004: Rehabilitating the word LIBERAL - and Elvis? in these pages for that discussion.)

Rick adds – "I wonder how accurate this map really is?  Of course, those lines would in theory be tracking the eye of the storm, which means Gore counties would in some cases get hit pretty hard, too.  But still...."

The Map:

God punishes Republicans, it seems.

Over at Snopes: Urban Legends Reference Pages, one of the many sites that debunks internet hoaxes, you will find this:

Claim: Three hurricanes that hit Florida in the summer of 2004 touched only counties that voted for George Bush in the 2000 presidential election.

Status: False

The discussion that follows there parallels Rick’s comment – "The map shown above presents the hurricanes as if they traversed neat, narrow paths, hitting only counties that voted for George Bush in 2000 (colored pink) and avoiding all counties that voted for Al Gore (colored blue). It took some finagling with the actual storm data to produce those results, however."  And a complete discussion follows.

But still….