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excelsus
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« on: March 28, 2014, 04:18:50 PM »
« edited: April 30, 2014, 08:55:04 AM by excelsus »

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?



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excelsus
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« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2014, 06:44:59 PM »


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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« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2014, 06:53:00 PM »

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.
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« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2014, 08:17:23 PM »

Thanks for the information, Flo. I had know clue what ElectionsGuy meant with "eye-4 corridor".
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« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2014, 02:12:45 AM »

(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?
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« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2014, 07:02:29 PM »


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? Angry

I should tear the map apart and throw it in the wastebasket.
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« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2014, 10:02:54 PM »

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...
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« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2014, 07:13:12 PM »

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. Smiley
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« Reply #8 on: April 18, 2014, 03:50:16 PM »

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.)
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« Reply #9 on: April 18, 2014, 05:39:16 PM »

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 Tongue

There are even more states that fulfill the condition. Tongue Tongue Tongue
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« Reply #10 on: April 19, 2014, 01:42:40 AM »
« Edited: April 30, 2014, 08:54:41 AM by excelsus »

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 Tongue

There are even more states that fulfill the condition. Tongue Tongue Tongue

Hawaii! Cheesy


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...
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« Reply #11 on: April 19, 2014, 03:06:25 AM »
« Edited: April 19, 2014, 03:27:25 AM by excelsus »

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 Tongue

There are even more states that fulfill the condition. Tongue Tongue Tongue

Hawaii! Cheesy


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...

Arizona

Exactly. Arizona is even more of an interesting state regarding its county maps, as it is - well - actually very boring.

The presidential election results of what year does the following map display?

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excelsus
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« Reply #12 on: April 19, 2014, 03:27:43 AM »


Of what year?
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« Reply #13 on: April 24, 2014, 03:47:53 PM »

Oh, it's just one year... Maybe 2008?

The interestingly boring feature of Arizona is the fact that its county maps of presidential results didn't change at all from 2008 to 2012. (Hawaii and Delaware display this oddity, too, but neither of them consists of as many counties as Arizona.)

                            2008                                                       2012
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