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3D Election Results Map by County
FlopEJoe writes "There are many web-based electoral maps available on the regular news sites (Electorial-vote, CNN) but this image 3d county results seemed more profound to me. Wish I had more to say about it but I don't want to cloud the discussion. I think it speaks for itself and the spin-masters should enjoy it."
Because the peaks are due to population, this must correlate somewhat to the skyscraper distribution graph also.
What software was used?
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In France there was a very racist party (Front National) and the people who would vote for them were on average less educated than people who voted for other parties. The FN leader, Le Pen, said it had to do with the propaganda we have in schools against the FN. Which of course wasn't believed by anyone but the people without an education.
Kind of reminds you of pre-Communist China. Mao Tse Tung controlled the countryside and what's-his-name controlled the cities.
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New York City is split into several counties/boroughs, and on the map it looks like it was split up that way. There are several tall but narrow sections. Chicago and some surrounding area is shown as one huge Cook County spike.
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This page is hosted by ESRI. They write graphical information systems software (gis). I think the intent of this image is to illustrate the capability of their software, not so much to illustrate the election results. Looks like using election results was just a provocative way to get someone to look at their software. I couldn't find where this is linked from on their site. You could say linking to it here is puting it out of context. I would expect to see this image in an add for their product in one of the IT rags.
Because the peaks are due to population
I'd say they have more to do with African American population, since 88% of them voted democratic which is by far the largest margin in any racial grouping. 88% of African Americans also live in metropolitan areas according to the 2000 census.
The Republican party must find a way to reach out to these people or at least somehow counter the perception that Republicans are racists.
You know, the first time I checked out the county-by-county maps, one thing stood out to me and I found it quite interesting. The whole time I've been seeing state-by-state maps New York has always been a "blue" state. So I figured that the majority of the state was pro-Kerry. But when you look at the county-by-county maps of New York, you see that while Kerry did get the majority of the New York votes, that geographically most of the state is actually pro-Bush.
If you look at the New York map, you see that most of the state is either pro-Bush, neutral, or weak-Kerry. The only really strong area of support for Kerry in New York State was New York City. It's a sad but true fact that one city can out-vote the rest of the state.
I think that's how Hillary Clinton was elected too. I don't know of anyone upstate who was in strong support of her (well, in the Finger Lakes region anyway. But I did see plenty of anti-Hillary signs at the time), but yet she won anyway. There weren't enough non-Hillary votes in the rest of the state to counteract the pro-Hillary votes in NYC.
It would be interesting if the electoral college could be split along districts. Like if say, the popular vote got the 2 senators votes for the state, and then each district had its representative vote the way that district voted. If that was the case, I'd think that Kerry would have had at most 10 votes in New York State for the electoral college. But considering the current system, he swept the whole state.
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It's an urban legend. If you track down those sources, they point to the book "IQ and the Wealth of Nations." But this state IQ data never appeared in that book (see http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/2004/05/ among others.)
Anybody who's gone near a statistics book knows it's ludicrous to think an entire state could have an average IQ that's one sigma away from nominal mean.
And just because something was written into the founding documents doesn't make it right, or appicable to todays world. After all, the Constitution had provisions for slavery in it. See Article 1, Section 2, third paragraph.
See, I can look up historical documents, too!
/. is a bunch of nerds at a million typewriters. It's not a political conspiracy determined to undermine your beliefs.
Looks to me like the population is divided by the area to get the bar height. Thus the *volume* is the population, which makes sense. Though it can still be really misleading anyway.
It would also help if they mixed the red and blue in the proportion of the votes.
While looking at a NY county map, I was wondering why there is a dark blue county (Tompkins) in the middle of the state. A quick search answered my question -- Tompkins County is the home of Cornell Univeristy. I then looked at some other states, and noticed the same thing: in Michigan both Washtenaw (Univeristy of Michigan) and Ingham (Michigan State) counties are blue. In Indiana, Monroe County (Indiana University) is one of a few blue spots. Champaign County in Illinois is relatively blue compared to surrounding counties. Dane County in Wisconsin (Univeristy of Wisconsin) is bluer than its neighbors. It still worked in Colorado (Boulder), but not in Oklahoma or Texas.
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