Dallasfan65's MA Town Map Thread

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anyone got an empty Vermont town map I can play with? I was to put the 1912 results in

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anyone got an empty Vermont town map I can play with? I was to put the 1912 results in

You can do it if you like, but if that data is available then I'm going to do a composite of 1912 election in New England as a whole.

I only have data on Vermont, I wish I had all of NE 1912 town data

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Vermont 1912, I was never really good with colour schemes and shadings...

Indigo is a tie between GOP and Prog.
pink is a tie between Prog. and Dem.

The map isn't perfect as there were some boundaries changed since 1912 it seems (especially around Burlington).

there are traces of regional patterns but nothing really clear cut. Burlington and around was more dem friendly as were some places bordering NH.  Teddy did well all around but especially closer to Canada. GOP were pretty strong in the state capital and around and had enough ancestral support to clinch it from Teddy.

Barre town was bizarre. 4 parties (Debs finished third) all with around 25% of the vote. It was also the only place in Vermont where Debs did well. Anyone can explain this historic oddity?

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Vermont 1912, I was never really good with colour schemes and shadings...

Indigo is a tie between GOP and Prog.
pink is a tie between Prog. and Dem.

The map isn't perfect as there were some boundaries changed since 1912 it seems (especially around Burlington).

there are traces of regional patterns but nothing really clear cut. Burlington and around was more dem friendly as were some places bordering NH.  Teddy did well all around but especially closer to Canada. GOP were pretty strong in the state capital and around and had enough ancestral support to clinch it from Teddy.

Barre town was bizarre. 4 parties (Debs finished third) all with around 25% of the vote. It was also the only place in Vermont where Debs did well. Anyone can explain this historic oddity?

There was a Socialist debate hall in Barre. You can see it in 1916 as well:



I did Vermont in 1912 on my own and I'm currently working on New Hampshire. The whole map should be finished in a week or two.

I love those minor historic quirks. What did you with the Burlington area? They changed the boundaries of S. Burlington since

[Hnv1]

Vermont 1912, I was never really good with colour schemes and shadings...

Indigo is a tie between GOP and Prog.
pink is a tie between Prog. and Dem.

The map isn't perfect as there were some boundaries changed since 1912 it seems (especially around Burlington).

there are traces of regional patterns but nothing really clear cut. Burlington and around was more dem friendly as were some places bordering NH.  Teddy did well all around but especially closer to Canada. GOP were pretty strong in the state capital and around and had enough ancestral support to clinch it from Teddy.

Barre town was bizarre. 4 parties (Debs finished third) all with around 25% of the vote. It was also the only place in Vermont where Debs did well. Anyone can explain this historic oddity?

There was a Socialist debate hall in Barre. You can see it in 1916 as well:



I did Vermont in 1912 on my own and I'm currently working on New Hampshire. The whole map should be finished in a week or two.

I love those minor historic quirks. What did you with the Burlington area? They changed the boundaries of S. Burlington since

I wasn't aware of that. Was it a particularly meaningful change?

I do edit my early Massachusetts maps to have the towns that got destroyed when the Quabbin Reservoir was made.

It’s hard to tell, maybe a mail to the SoS is in order, it was a tiny village back then and I think the area to the east of Burlington wasn’t a part of it

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This map is from 1869. It doesn't look any different to me. Are you sure you aren't thinking of Winooski, which was incorporated from Colchester in the 20's?

It's also worth mentioning that a lot of towns in that area of the template include water anyway.

Yes I noticed Winooski, I simply coloured both according to the Colchester figures. I’ll look again at the file because I recall some peculiarity around Burlington from the south and east. Could be that I miscalculated due to neglect of noticing how water shaped the actual town shape. I guess we’ll see if there would a discrepancy between our maps