County maps for interesting candidates

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I've been meaning to do some of these for a while; basically national (or regional in certain cases) maps of, well, interesting candidates.

Did Anderson first:



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Comments?

[Joe Republic]

Hmm, that is interesting.  I can understand his heavy support in northern IL and New England, and lack thereof right across the South, but why did he seem to do so well in CO as well?  It's not just Denver either.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Hmm, that is interesting.  I can understand his heavy support in northern IL and New England, and lack thereof right across the South, but why did he seem to do so well in CO as well?  It's not just Denver either.

Ski-resorts and all that I think; he took 20.8% in Pitkin (which includes Aspen) for example.

[Rob]

Very nice! His areas of strength are the same places that Nader ran well in 2000.

I would really like a LaFollette map for 1924, if at all possible.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

His areas of strength are the same places that Nader ran well in 2000.

In general yes (college towns and resorts... basically...), but there are some interesting exceptions here and there.

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Sure

[Rob]

Awesome!

[Colin]

Got any others for us? Great work as always Al very interesting.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Just a small one now;



Schmitz (who was pretty much an out-and-out fascist) also polled well in parts of Louisiana and fairly well (ie; 4%) in a couple of counties in Southern California and Tennessee.

[Rob]

Schmitz ran ahead of McGovern in four Idaho counties, didn't he?

That's pretty damn scary.

[Colin]

Did well with the Mormons in Idaho didn't he?

[WMS]

Los Alamos and Santa Fe Counties were Anderson's top two, eh? Err, let's see...I suppose Anderson won the left-libertarian vote.

[jimrtex]

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You can do it is as an url.

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Interesting college town vote, including places like Norman, Stillwater, Columbia, Carbondale, Raleigh-Durham, Lawrence, Manhattan, Lincoln, Laramie, Champaign-Urbana, Lafayette, Bloomington, Tallahassee, Morgantown, Madison, Lexington, Austin, Knoxville, Ames, Iowa City, Boulder, Lansing, Ann Arbor, State College.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

You can do it is as an url.

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I could do... but that would be logical

[minionofmidas]

Schmitz (who was pretty much an out-and-out fascist)

And we all know what happened to John Schmitz' daughter, don't we?

[jimrtex]

Schmitz (who was pretty much an out-and-out fascist)

And we all know what happened to John Schmitz' daughter, don't we?

I had an internet acquaintance who was living in Germany, and was concerned about coming back to the United State, because he had for some reason registered as an American Independent, and thought it might be some sort of socialist party.  Shortly thereafter I was reading about Schmitz's daughter.

I was thinking of telling him, that the good news was that the immigration people wouldn't think he was a commie...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Don't have county-level stuff for six states, but the overall picture is pretty clear anyway.
Some very interesting patterns here and there.

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[jerusalemcar5]

Hey can you do Barry Commoner in 1980 .

[jimrtex]

Don't have county-level stuff for six states, but the overall picture is pretty clear anyway.

74.0% in Comal County, 58.5% in Gillespie.  Lots of missing data.  I suspect that El Paso was over 10%, it was almost 50:50 in 1920 and 1928.

Big State

[Rob]

Very cool. Thanks for the LaFollette data.

He took all the Republican progressive vote, even carrying two anti-slavery German counties in Texas.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Thanks Jim

He took all the Republican progressive vote, even carrying two anti-slavery German counties in Texas.

What's interesting about that, is that in traditionally Democratic areas where other lefties had run well in in the past, he did quite badly; Little Dixie certainly didn't warm to him for one thing.

He also did pretty well in most mining areas; which isn't really suprising. Can't explain that one county in South Carolina though. Any guesses?

[Rob]

No idea. It reminds me of the Debs vote in a few northern Louisiana parishes in 1912- he broke 30 percent in one or two iirc. I'm assuming that these places were dirt-poor, but how did the people become organized to vote Socialist, in this one election?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

No idea. It reminds me of the Debs vote in a few northern Louisiana parishes in 1912- he broke 30 percent in one or two iirc.

One of them was Winn parish.

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No idea. That it happend in a South Carolina county is especially odd, bearing in mind the restrictions on the franchise and poor turnouts.
Not sure what the county was like in 1924, but it's quite industrial these days IIRC.

[jimrtex]

Thanks Jim

It's interesting that even the lower levels (5% and 10%) picked up areas where there had been significant immigration (from both Europe and the midwest) such as in the Panhandle and South Plains and along the Red River, and the Czech and German areas between Houston and San Antonio.

A hugely extreme difference between Comal and Hays counties, but that has been consistent:

1876: Hays 504:165 Tilden; Comal 176:260 Hayes.
1896: Hays 1813:692 Bryan;  Comal 268:1023 McKinley.
1916: Hays 995:123 Wilson;  Comal 432:743 Hughes.
1940: Hays 2239:555 FDR;  Comal 852:1851 Wilkie.
1972: Hays 4068:5406 Nixon;  Comal 1823:6761 Nixon.
1988: Hays 11187:11716 Bush; Comal 5716:13994 Bush.
2004: Hays 27021:20110 Bush; Comal 31574:9153 Bush.

They're becoming similar.  2004 was down to 20% different.  1896, 1916, and 1940 were around 50%.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Perot in 1992 now:



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Some very odd patterns there...

[WMS]

Communitarian-land didn't seem to like Perot all that much.