French Demographic Maps

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Foreign population is the only one which is kind of interesting

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The Insee details foreigners by nationality: http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/tableau.asp?reg_id=99&ref_id=t_0405D

In Lot-et-Garonne,
30.6% of the foreign population comes from "another EU country" (UK probably)
27.2% of the foreign population comes from Morocco
20.9% of the foreign population comes from Portugal

Tarn-et-Garonne
29.4% are from Morocco
28.5% are from "another EU country"
12.6% are from Portugal

Haute-Vienne is largely from the EU with a few Algerians.

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Those only include foreigners - people who lack French citizenship. There are many more French citizens who are first-generation immigrants from North Africa or Europe or at least of North African/European ancestry. They aren't counted in these statistics.

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Epic map time, demographic version

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Nobody seems to care but here are two maps which are key in understanding political traditions





"agglomeree" meant all those people who lived in the "chef-lieu" of the commune (the village's core) while "eparse" meant all those who lived outside the chef-lieu.

Stuff like this is 'eparse'; stuff like this is agglomerated. Not that there aren't differences; the bocage is way different from the Limousin.

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the nucleated map like the vote FN map. Some explainaitions?

Poujadiste heritage?

Most certainly not! Look at the Poujadist map in 1956. In the bulk of cases, it is a world away from the modern FN map. The FN is by and large a urban-suburban-industrialized ruralism party, the UFF was a heavily rural affair.

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Not perfect (especially in the southeast), but there are some pretty clear political patterns on this map: % of individually exploited farms in 2010

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Dordogne, Correze, Vendee, Ariege, Hautes-Pyrenees, Creuse, Haute-Vienne, Indre, Haute-Saone, Var (to an extent), Aveyron, Lozere (to an extent), Ardennes, Vaucluse, Herault, Gard (both to a limited extent), Lot; even Cantal, Puy-de-Dome, Pyrenees-Atlantiques, Pyrenees-Orientales and Charente don't exist guys? I'm not saying this is the cause of anything or that it explains all much or that the correlation is even strong; but denying that there's just no connection is stupid. And I hope you're just denying the link in a modern context; because if you're denying the existence of any link, ever; you don't understand French history. Certainly the connection is much, much weaker now and isn't a good explanation for modern stuff, but...

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Ugh, people. I never said the correlation was perfect; it is partial. There is a partial link, in some places, between small property and leftist tradition. It is not universal, but anybody with half a brain understands that voting patterns and their determinants differ from region to region and that an identical type of makeup in two regions doesn't mean that they vote identically - far from it. And even if I recognize that it is not the only cause, it certainly informs a political tradition.

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Epic map time, demographic version

can't read the keys

Map 1
red: ouvriers, manual workers
purple: employees
cyan: professions intermediaires, middle-level employees/lower management/teachers
green: agriculteurs; farmers who own their farms
yellow: artisans, commercants - shopkeepers, artisans
blue: CPIS, managers/professional-scientific-tech

Map 2
All the same, except orange for prof. intermediaires

Details here: http://www.insee.fr/fr/methodes/default.asp?page=nomenclatures/pcs2003/liste_n1.htm

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Some median income maps within large cities:

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Why does Orléans have that bizarre shape?

I'm not quite sure. A few French communes have bizarre shapes, but in this case it might be a (rare) case of amalgamation. The south of the city, La Source, is a new area built around a uni campus and a fairly low-income HLM 'city' and it is divided from the rest of the city by the Loiret river.