Someday We'll Find it, that Rainbow Connection

A fine suggestion, from a random commenter out there in the ether of the blogs:

Just for the sake of personal sanity, from now on when I am presented with the red/blue map (which is simply there to antagonize and divide), I am gonna think "Elmo states/Cookie Monster States". It keeps my blood pressure down and allows me to actually do the progressive work that I was put here to do (or at least that's what the voices keep telling me).

Alternatively, I suggest just picturing all the states naked.