TJ in Oregon
TJ in Cleve
Junior Chimp
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« Reply #75 on: January 12, 2013, 01:40:45 AM » |
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Now, the 2012 Map:
And the swing map:
Romney vastly outperformed McCain in the wealthy suburban areas but underperformed McCain in the blue collar white areas in Cuyahoga County. Notice the dark blue areas on the far east side and clump of red on the near west side. In addition, a large part of this is a map of white flight, in particular the darker pink ring around the black areas. Some of the decline in Republican support on the near west side is also white flight as blacks and Hispanics are beginning to move into traditionally white west side neighborhoods. The two 1-2% R shaded neighborhoods in the center are Downtown and Ohio City/Tremont, all of which are gentrifying areas with an upperclass core that votes less lopsidedly with poor areas (including housing projects) on the periphery that vote in the usual close to unanimously Democratic fashion.
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