If you lived in a "red state" in 2000, the chances are you voted for George Bush, while voters in the "blue" states went for Al Gore.

That same divide exists today between the two films.

Red staters chose "The Passion" while blue staters went for Moore's film, according to the New York Times.

Surveys by ticket sales tracker Nielsen EDI Inc. showed that the top theaters for "Fahrenheit" have been in urban, traditionally Democratic strongholds, including Manhattan, Los Angeles, San Francisco and the Bay Area, Chicago and Boston

Theaters with the most ticket sales for "The Passion" were typically more suburban and far more widely dispersed, from Texas and New Mexico to Ohio, Florida and Orange County, Calif., the Times reported.

Data compiled by Nielsen EDI showed the 50 theaters around the country where each film had the highest gross.

"The Passion" is the year's biggest money maker - a startling $609 million in worldwide ticket sales since it was released in February - while "Fahrenheit" - the most popular feature-length "documentary" ever - had sales in North America of $80.1 million in just three weeks.

For "The Passion," the rankings reflect the film's full run, the Times noted.

For "Fahrenheit," the data include only the first two weeks of ticket receipts.

Nielsen experts, however, said that there was little difference in the theater rankings for "Passion" between the first two weeks of release and the full run.

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