Post random maps here

[Hatman 🍁]

Dark and light shades do have something to do with one another.

Oops, I sort of did the map wrong.  It should actually look like this:



With this new completely standardized map, it would be pretty much impossible to have light green or light orange.  Light blue *could* exist, but [hint]probably only for members like Harry and Josh22[/hint].  Oh, and [hint]afleitch too[/hint].

Heck, I could do this map for other places too:

Wow, that is really hard.

Political map?

No; earlier, AlcHitlre said something about it having to do with letters, and I said that was somewhat close to what it is.

Is the fact that Indiana is green a mistake?

[Soaring Eagle]

Ok, how does this happen in 2008?

Jim Matheson / Kent Conrad vs Rudy Giuliani / Mitt Romney

[ilikeverin]

Is the fact that Indiana is green a mistake?

No, it should be dark green.

[ilikeverin]

Yes, I had to add pink.  Oh crap, wait, I just realized this means my U.S. map is wrong...



Okie doke, only change, Georgia goes from dark red->dark pink.

Now, back to Europe.  A few points:

• In case you can't see Malta or Luxembourg, they're dark green and dark orange, respectively.
• Use 'Macedonia', not 'Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia'.  Otherwise it'd be light yellow.
• Use 'Netherlands', not 'the Netherlands'.  Otherwise it would be dark yellow (not light red!)
• Ukraine is not a mistake; it should not be light red.

[ilikeverin]

Here, I'll make it easier for you:

Light Red
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Croatia
Italy
Kansas
Kentucky
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Poland
Portugal
Prince Edward Island
Quebec
Tennessee
Texas
Turkey

Dark Red
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia & Herzegovina
British Columbia
Bulgaria
Delaware
Denmark
District of Columbia
Greece
Idaho

Dark Orange
Alabama
Alaska
Albania
Alberta
Illinois
Latvia
Lithuania
Louisiana
Luxembourg

Light Yellow
Austria
Cyprus
Estonia
Finland
Florida
France
Hawaii
Hungary
Iceland
Ohio
Saskatchewan (omg I spelled this right the first time?!?)
Serbia
Slovenia
South Carolina
South Dakota
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland

Dark Yellow
Azerbaijan
Virginia
Vermont

Dark Green
England
Indiana
Macedonia
Maine
Malta
Manitoba
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Moldova
Montana
Montenegro
Nebraska
Netherlands
Nevada
New Brunswick
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
Newfoundland & Labrador
North Carolina
North Dakota
Northern Ireland
Northwest Territories
Norway
Nova Scotia
Nunavut
Ontario

Dark Blue
Arizona
Arkansas
Armenia
Iowa
Ireland
Oregon
Romania
Russia
Ukraine
Utah
Wales
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Yukon Territory

Light Pink
Czech Republic

Dark Purple
Georgia (the country)
Georgia (the state)
Germany

I even alphabetized it

[kashifsakhan]

what could cause this in 2008?

[nini2287]

what could cause this in 2008?

Evan Bayh/John Lynch
Orrin Hatch/Kit Bond
Roy Moore/Jeb Bush

[MaC]

Ok, how does this happen in 2008?

(if that's using the 'red' and 'blue' the public uses)
Bush says F--- everyone who lives east of the Mississippi River!

[minionofmidas - supplemental forum account]

Ok, how does this happen in 2008?

(if that's using the 'red' and 'blue' the public uses)
Bush says F--- everyone who lives east of the Mississippi River!

Republicans vote a measure through congress to turn everywhere east of the Muzzsippy into a nukes-testing ground.
Democrats pass a platform plank to turn over all those uninhabitable wastes west of the Mississippi to Al-Qaeda as an appeasement measure.

[Joe Republic]

[Bacon King]

How long a state's gone dem vs. how long it's gone rep?

[Joe Republic]

Nope.

[minionofmidas - supplemental forum account]

State's most lopsided result since some date or other. Noone has cracked 60% in Ohio for several thousand millennia IIRC.

[True Democrat]

State's most lopsided result since some date or other. Noone has cracked 60% in Ohio for several thousand millennia IIRC.

Umm, Johnson got 63% in 1964.

[Joe Republic]

State's most lopsided result since some date or other. Noone has cracked 60% in Ohio for several thousand millennia IIRC.

Except for the last sentence, you're correct.  It was each state's widest vote margin going back as far as 1900.

[DWPerry]

Here's an interesting map! The results would be R300-D238



It's the electoral average from elections since 1960.

[Joe Republic]

[minionofmidas - supplemental forum account]

Clue - each different shade represents a special case. The D80 and D60 shades are related. The D40 shade is not related to these. The I40 shade is not related to the I80 shade.

[True Democrat]

It's fairly easy, but see if you can figure it out.

[minionofmidas - supplemental forum account]

Clue - each different shade represents a special case. The D80 and D60 shades are related. The D30 shade is not related to these. The I30 shade is not related to the I80 shade.

It's a map of 1968.
80 shades - one candidate (Nixon / Humphrey / Wallace) over 50%, no other candidate over 25%.
60 shades - one candidate over 50%, one other candidate over 25% (actually, it was initially supposed to be separate colours, 60s and 50s,  depending on which other candidate crossed 25%, but this wasn't necessary as there was no state where Nixon or Humphrey was over 50 and Wallace over 25)
30 shades - two candidates over 25%, none over 50% (light blue - not used - ; Nixon and Wallace. pink: Nixon and Humphrey. light green: Humphrey and Wallace.)
grey - all three candidates over 25%.

[Joe Republic]

It's fairly easy, but see if you can figure it out.

Bush's current approval ratings?

[Joe Republic]

This was the 2004 result of the alphabetically first county in each state.

[Joe Republic]

Nothing to do with politics:

[True Democrat]

It's fairly easy, but see if you can figure it out.

Bush's current approval ratings?

Nope, think historical (but not too historical).

[MaC]

hint: nothing to do with Democrats or Republicans