US-Canada County Maps Thread

[bgwah]

Cool maps. Hopefully you're using a map-making program and not Paint.

This is one of my favorites: a religion map. The data for Canada is from the 2001 Census, so it might be a bit old, but not too much. The data for the US is the most recent ARDA data with some adjustments I made: I took the adherents data and compared it to the ARIS survey of religious self-identification. I found that the data matched up nationally for Catholics and minor religions but not Protestants due to the about 14% of the population that identifies as generically Christian but doesn't attend any one specific church. So I adjusted for these "invisible Christians" to ARIS levels, and divided the new total adherents by the total adult population and fixed a couple other minor issues to get this map:

Would it be possible for you to post an example of your methodology? Maybe with a WA county (King?) so I can better follow along.

I'm surprised Franklin/Adams aren't Catholic

[bgwah]

I think it's a cool map. I knew Earl would have said something snotty before clicking though.

[bgwah]

There were polls by province, IIRC. Could those be incorporated? Canada would be almost all dark red... But still.

The first map might be a good indication of how Canada might vote had it been annexed by the USA long ago.

[bgwah]

I have a couple more variables I can try, but I would rather not include actual election data. However, if you have election results by census division (actual percentages), I am interested in potentially doing a reverse projection: how the US might have voted if it were annexed by Canada long ago.

I would love to see that. Maybe even precinct maps?! Though Canada's small black and Hispanic populations might make it difficult to compare.

[bgwah]

Thanks for sharing. What makes WA >40% and OR only >30%? Or is it a tiny difference (like 40.2 and 39.7 or something)?

If you know 90% of counties go for the Conservatives, does that mean you've already made a county map...? Given the Conservatives wins of almost everything due to vote-splitting, strength maps for each party could be interesting.

[bgwah]

So purple must be Sikh? And orange Jewish?