Summary of the six / four latest presidential elections.

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The map below displays which counties have consistently been conquered by one single party throughout the last six elections.

Red denotes the Democratic candidates, blue the GOP nominees.
Violet (or whatever you wanna call that color) denotes shifts in partisan views.

P.S.: I can't find any data for Alaska for 1992 and 1996. It's highly likely that Perot could have won one or two boroughs, so I haven't wanted to complete the map yet. Can anyone of you help me?

[retromike22]

Very impressive! That Indiana/Western Ohio patch of GOP blue stands out to me. Also the grayness of Eastern OK, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, and West Virginia stand out. I think... if there was a map that had only 2000-2012, it would look much different.

[ElectionsGuy]

Good stuff excelsus! I'm enjoying looking at this.

Places that have trending hard towards republicans:

 - Northeastern Mississippi
 - Most of Arkansas
 - Most of Louisiana (especially the southwestern area)
 - Northern Alabama
 - Non-Eastern Tennessee (besides Nashville/Memphis)
 - Non-South Central Kentucky (besides Louisville/Lexington)
 - Most of West Virginia
 - Eastern and North Central Texas
 - Eastern and Southern Oklahoma
 - Non-Southwestern Missouri (Besides St. Louis/Kansas City)
 - Southern Illinois
 - Southern (mostly southwestern) Indiana
 - Southeastern Ohio
 - Southwestern Pennsylvania outside Pittsburgh
 - The Florida Panhandle (specifically the rural areas just outside Tallahassee)
 - Southwestern and Western Virginia
 - Rural Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and Arizona

Places that have trended hard towards democrats:

 - Rural New England, specifically Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine
 - Central Upstate New York and NYC suburbs (as well as NYC itself)
 - Northern Virginia, the Richmond area (and suburbs), and Southeastern Virginia
 - The "Research Triangle" in North Carolina, as well as
 - Southern California outside Imperial County (moderately republican turned moderately democrat)
 - Portland and Seattle (and their respective suburbs)
 - Chicago and its Suburbs
 - Philadelphia and its Suburbs
 - New Jersey, mostly Eastern and Northeastern.
 - Delaware
 - "Eye-4-corridor" (or whatever) in Florida, as well as Southeastern Florida.
 - Jackson area in Mississippi
 - Southern and Southwestern Texas (as well as San Antonio and Austin)
 - Central and the bay area in California

Tell me if I missed any, but these seem to be the main ones.

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Tell me if I missed any, but these seem to be the main ones.

You forgot Northern Idaho.

Btw, there are only two states each of whose counties have unanimously gone for the same party since 1992.

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Very impressive! That Indiana/Western Ohio patch of GOP blue stands out to me. Also the grayness of Eastern OK, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, and West Virginia stand out. I think... if there was a map that had only 2000-2016, it would look much different.

Also, I hadn't expected Nebraska to be so homogeneously Republican before making this map.

[Flake]

- "Eye-4-corridor" (or whatever) in Florida, as well as Southeastern Florida.

What they're talking about is I-4, a road that stretches from Daytona Beach to Tampa Bay and it's trending Democratic because it's a high tourist area (never drive on that road, too many crashes because of terrible tourist drivers) and most people refer to it as this part of the state:

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Thanks for the information, Flo. I had know clue what ElectionsGuy meant with "eye-4 corridor".

[ElectionsGuy]

Thanks for the information, Flo. I had know clue what ElectionsGuy meant with "eye-4 corridor".

Sorry about that its just something I hear constantly but never used as a phrase so I didn't know how to say it. Basically Tampa/Pinellas/Orlando/Central Florida

[Simfan34]

Magnum opus, but this is otherwise very neat!

[Nichlemn]

The gray is mostly swing counties and "Clinton South" areas. So it shouldn't be particularly surprising that there's a lot of blue in places like Nebraska or Indiana, as Clinton didn't have an unusually high appeal to rural voters there.

[Orser67]

Magnum opus, but this is otherwise very neat!

Magnum opus literally means "great work" in Latin. Maximum is the superlative form of magnum, so the phrase could be translated to mean "greatest work." I've heard the term "maxima cum laude" used in a similar way.

Anyway, great job.

[Del Tachi]

Tell me if I missed any, but these seem to be the main ones.

You forgot Northern Idaho.

Btw, there are only two states each of whose counties have unanimously gone for the same party since 1992.

There are 3.

[TJ in Oregon]

Nice job!

I think Sheboygan County, Wisconsin voted (pretty narrowly) for Bill Clinton in 1996 though so it should be gray instead of blue.

(Sorry for being the one random jerk who points out a mistake)

[BaconBacon96]

How fascinating...

Bravo, great work.

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(Sorry for being the one random jerk who points out a mistake)

Maybe I'm going to forgive you one day...

Does anybody see any further mistakes?

[ElectionsGuy]

(Sorry for being the one random jerk who points out a mistake)

Maybe I'm going to forgive you one day...

Does anybody see any further mistakes?

Texas. Bush won Travis County in '00 and Obama won Dallas County both times, so they should both be grey.

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Texas. Bush won Travis County in '00 and Obama won Dallas County both times, so they should both be grey.

OMG. Why do I make such silly mistakes?

I should tear the map apart and throw it in the wastebasket.

[ElectionsGuy]

Texas. Bush won Travis County in '00 and Obama won Dallas County both times, so they should both be grey.

OMG. Why do I make such silly mistakes?

I should tear the map apart and throw it in the wastebasket.

Don't be mad, we humans have a tendency to rush things and generalize to get things done quicker. It's a great map, I just happened to notice one mistake. I would just look over it one more time with all 6 years of data.

By the way, how did you create this thing?

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Don't be mad, we humans have a tendency to rush things and generalize to get things done quicker. It's a great map, I just happened to notice one two mistakes. I would just look over it one more time with all 6 years of data.

By the way, how did you create this thing?

Handicraft...

[Napoleon]

You should make this same map for onlg the last four and then another for the last two and we can see how it compares.

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You should make this same map for onlg the last four and then another for the last two and we can see how it compares.

I did it.

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Follow-up question:

Which states entirely consist of counties, all of which didn't change their support for one and the same party the last four times?
(Bizarrely, I didn't recognize it while making those maps.)

[Flake]

Follow-up question:

Which states entirely consist of counties, all of which didn't change their support for one and the same party the last four times?
(Bizarrely, I didn't recognize it while making those maps.)

Massachusetts and Rhode Island

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Follow-up question:

Which states entirely consist of counties, all of which didn't change their support for one and the same party the last four times?
(Bizarrely, I didn't recognize it while making those maps.)

Massachusetts and Rhode Island

There are even more states that fulfill the condition.

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Follow-up question:

Which states entirely consist of counties, all of which didn't change their support for one and the same party the last four times?
(Bizarrely, I didn't recognize it while making those maps.)

Massachusetts and Rhode Island

There are even more states that fulfill the condition.

Hawaii!


But I can't see anymore after that

Hawaii, Rhode Island and Massachusetts are the trivial answers.
However, there's a fourth state that doesn't stare in one's face at once...