County maps for interesting candidates

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I've been meaning to do some of these for a while; basically national (or regional in certain cases) maps of, well, interesting candidates.

Did Anderson first:



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Hmm, that is interesting.  I can understand his heavy support in northern IL and New England, and lack thereof right across the South, but why did he seem to do so well in CO as well?  It's not just Denver either.

Ski-resorts and all that I think; he took 20.8% in Pitkin (which includes Aspen) for example.

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His areas of strength are the same places that Nader ran well in 2000.

In general yes (college towns and resorts... basically...), but there are some interesting exceptions here and there.

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Sure

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Just a small one now;



Schmitz (who was pretty much an out-and-out fascist) also polled well in parts of Louisiana and fairly well (ie; 4%) in a couple of counties in Southern California and Tennessee.

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You can do it is as an url.

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I could do... but that would be logical

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Don't have county-level stuff for six states, but the overall picture is pretty clear anyway.
Some very interesting patterns here and there.

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Thanks Jim

He took all the Republican progressive vote, even carrying two anti-slavery German counties in Texas.

What's interesting about that, is that in traditionally Democratic areas where other lefties had run well in in the past, he did quite badly; Little Dixie certainly didn't warm to him for one thing.

He also did pretty well in most mining areas; which isn't really suprising. Can't explain that one county in South Carolina though. Any guesses?

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No idea. It reminds me of the Debs vote in a few northern Louisiana parishes in 1912- he broke 30 percent in one or two iirc.

One of them was Winn parish.

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No idea. That it happend in a South Carolina county is especially odd, bearing in mind the restrictions on the franchise and poor turnouts.
Not sure what the county was like in 1924, but it's quite industrial these days IIRC.

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Perot in 1992 now:



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Some very odd patterns there...

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Interesting thing about the New York metro area, is that his %'s got smaller the closer you got into the city itself.

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This took a while, but the patterns are very interesting (and often quite suprising)...



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The next two maps will be of the other two candidates in '68; which due to the heightened class/sectional/racial/etc divisions of the time is a very revealing election indeed...

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I'm always surprised at how well Wallace ran in Idaho and Nevada.

The strange thing about his Nevada county results, is how similer they are to Perot's. And the interesting thing about his Idaho county results is how different they are to Schmitz's in places.

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That's... odd. Any reason why?

No idea.

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Here you go:



Only states in which he polled over 3% in any county were Utah and Idaho.

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Another odd thing from the Wallace map. Did Wallace win over 15% in Lake and Porter counties in Indiana?

Yes he did; 16% in Lake, 18% in Porter.

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That was probably a factor... IIRC there was actually a study done on voting patterns in the area in '68. I think I've got, part, of a summary of it somewhere...

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Nixon in '68 now:



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Quite a traditional Republican map in some ways.

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When you finish the Humphrey map (or whenever you have time), one for Henry Wallace's Progressive run in 1948 would be nice.

Oh, sure

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WE WANT BARRY COMMONER!

He polled above 2% in a handful of counties elsewhere, but it's not really mappable.

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HHH nearly done.

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HHH:



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[Filuwaúrdjan]

Looks like HHH's support was fairly well distributed; there are only a few areas with disturbingly low levels of support (southern Idaho, western Nebraska, northwest Mississippi, northern Alabama... along with some scattered GOP enclaves like Sioux, Iowa and Gillespie, Texas).

1968 wasn't nearly as geographically polarized as 2004. I'd even guess that Humphrey broke 40 percent in more counties than Kerry did.

I think the fact that Humphrey was, basically, the candidate of the non-Southern, non-white flight working class, had a lot to do with that. It's interesting, but he actually did better in some working class suburban counties than in ones containing big cities.

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Now for the other Wallace...



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Interestingly enough, his best areas up in the UP were largely copper mining and ex-copper mining (he took close to 10% in Keweenaw for example) rather than iron mining counties (although he still did pretty well in some of those).

Hillsborough county includes Tampa. Not sure why he did so well there though.

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Truman now:



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This took a while, but it was worth it IMO:



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Atlas doesn't have county stuff for Texas, Arkansas or Georgia up yet.

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Christensen:



A national map hasn't been done due to a doomed attempt to save my sanity...
Interesting patterns though.

He also did quite well in Southern IL and parts of Southern IN (a map showing his support there will be posted tomorrow).
Oh and a few counties in Iowa (which can be easily fitted on the same map I guess).

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Who was this Christiansen?

The candidate of the Farmer Labor Party (which IIRC wasn't the same thing as the Farmer Labor Party in MN) in 1920. I think he was a lawyer from Utah or something.