Post by Optimus on Jul 28, 2018 19:57:04 GMT -5
Thought this article and the interactive map it discusses was pretty interesting.
Here's the map: www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/upshot/election-2016-voting-precinct-maps.html
One of the things I found most interesting was the prominent blue swath that paints its way through the South. Seems to counter some of the stereotypes of how "red" the South is (politically, I mean. It's still pretty redneck).
On the neighborhood level, many of us really do live in an electoral bubble, this map shows: More than one in five voters lived in a precinct where 80 percent of the two-party vote went to Mr. Trump or Mrs. Clinton. But the map also reveals surprising diversity.
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The election results most readers are familiar with are county maps like the ones we produce at The Times on election night. But votes are cast at a much finer unit of geography — in precincts, which may contain thousands of voters but in some cases contain only a handful. Our previous election maps contained results for about 3,100 counties; here we show results for more than 168,000 voting precincts.
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The election results most readers are familiar with are county maps like the ones we produce at The Times on election night. But votes are cast at a much finer unit of geography — in precincts, which may contain thousands of voters but in some cases contain only a handful. Our previous election maps contained results for about 3,100 counties; here we show results for more than 168,000 voting precincts.
Here's the map: www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/upshot/election-2016-voting-precinct-maps.html
One of the things I found most interesting was the prominent blue swath that paints its way through the South. Seems to counter some of the stereotypes of how "red" the South is (politically, I mean. It's still pretty redneck).
