County Swing Map

[minionofmidas]

I would love to see a 2000-2012 swing map.

[minionofmidas]

Hard Romney Swing Areas
1. Appalachia/Coal
2. Mormons/Utah
3. Corn areas of IL, IN, MO
4. Oil in ND, MT, TX
5. NE WI. I have no idea why.

Correction of huge 2008 result (as also 3 and to an extent ND/MT.)

[minionofmidas]

Also --- what happened in Plaquemines Parish?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill

With Sandy perhaps reenforcing memories, also of Katrina.

[minionofmidas]

St Bernard is mostly quite dense, quite inner suburbia. It's also still casting just half the vote it did in 2004, the whole place was submerged during Katrina and some areas are not going to be resettled due to the flooding risk. (New Orleans' vote is up 10k since 2008 btw, accounting for much of the statewide swing.)

[minionofmidas]

That's nationally. In the rural Deep South, Black population has since the end of the Great Migration (and that was in the 70s) been creeping back up again.

Of course, it's risen by less over that period than it used to fall by per decade for fifty years, so...

[minionofmidas]

How so? In that Obama at least didn't think sink much further, and even got a bit of a dead cat bounce in places?

EDIT: LOL Typo.

[minionofmidas]

I would love to see a 2000-2012 swing map.

So I made one.