2008 Pres. Results of the fastest-growing county in each state

[Nhoj]

Also, low-population and geographically large counties find it easier to grow rapidly percentage-wide.  The Democrats could be racking up millions in the big cities, but if some of those counties are growing from 18 people to 25 people...

Yeah, it might be good to map the county in each state with the highest numerical growth, if anyone has access to that data.

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/011635.html
this has the top 25 for numerical growth between 2006 and 2007 but im not sure if you can.find the top 100 other then by doing the work your self.

[nclib]

results for the county with the largest numerical population gain in each state:

This does look more promising for the Democrats.

[nclib]

2008 results of the best educated (% of Bachelor's) county in each state:

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Red = best educated county more Democratic than the state total
Blue = best educated county more Republican than the state total

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[Verily]

Wealthiest (using old data, but prob. hasn't changed much--if someone can post more recent data, I'll update the map)

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red = more Dem than state avg.
blue = more Rep than state avg.

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Georgia!? Seriously!? Fulton County is wealthier than Forsyth or Cherokee, or even Cobb or Gwinnett?

Edit: Ah, it's a PCI v MHI thing. Forsyth is (by far) the wealthier on MHI, but Fulton edges it on PCI because there are a lot fewer kids. I imagine the MHI map would be much friendly to the Republicans generally.

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Counties that include the state capital.

In the case of Atlanta, GA and Salem, OR; where the capital is split between two counties, the county that includes the majority of the city is used.

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And now for the county that includes the most populous city (and not metro area)

[Sbane]

Wow I never knew Jacksonville was the largest city in Florida. You learn something new everyday.

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Wow I never knew Jacksonville was the largest city in Florida. You learn something new everyday.

Though Miami is the biggest metro area.

[memphis]

omg, Dems refuse to live in suburbs!!11  lolz

[Verily]

Wow I never knew Jacksonville was the largest city in Florida. You learn something new everyday.

Because Jacksonville is one of those stupid cities along with Houston and some smaller places which contains not only the city itself but also all of its suburbs and about half of its exurbs. In reality, Jacksonville is not a particularly big city.

[memphis]

Wow I never knew Jacksonville was the largest city in Florida. You learn something new everyday.

Because Jacksonville is one of those stupid cities along with Houston and some smaller places which contains not only the city itself but also all of its suburbs and about half of its exurbs. In reality, Jacksonville is not a particularly big city.

Why is that stupid? I think it's great to have much of the community together under one tax base.  What's stupid is that many cities still exist within early 20th century boundaries, while areas of settlement have ballooned out for many miles.

[platypeanArchcow]

Wow I never knew Jacksonville was the largest city in Florida. You learn something new everyday.

Because Jacksonville is one of those stupid cities along with Houston and some smaller places which contains not only the city itself but also all of its suburbs and about half of its exurbs. In reality, Jacksonville is not a particularly big city.

Why is that stupid? I think it's great to have much of the community together under one tax base.  What's stupid is that many cities still exist within early 20th century boundaries, while areas of settlement have ballooned out for many miles.

What's stupid is that people live far away from each other, straining transportation systems and wasting copious amounts of energy not only driving but also watering their lawns and heating their homes while taking up space that could be used for open space or farmland.  Most of the core cities of the Northeast have actually decreased in population since the early 20th century (NYC being an exception.)

[Verily]

Yech, not really a debate I wanted to get into. But, frankly, the advantages of a broadened tax base are completely negated by the voting power of the wealthy suburbs included in an oversized municipality. And electoral politics ensures that far more money is spent in the suburban areas than the urban ones anyway; if the suburbs are outvoted, they simply move further out, beyond the municipal government. But division between urban and suburban into separate municipalities allows the municipal governments to cater to the specific needs of their form of development. (For example, suburban voters vote against inner-city mass transit because they don't use it, but in a municipality which is mostly or entirely urban, inner-city mass transit is easily implemented.)

Competing interests on the scale of urban against suburban (against exurban and rural in some places) within a municipality is never a good thing.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Competing interests on the scale of urban against suburban (against exurban and rural in some places) within a municipality is never a good thing.

As the experience of "local" government in much of the U.K over the past thirty five years or so clearly shows.