Excellent analysis here, homely. Between this and your maps, I must say you've contributed quite a lot. How do you get all of this data, do you go directly to the state and request it?
Wow. I had no idea how long that was until I had to break it into three posts - it's 3,000 words long. It took eight hours to research and write. I guess I really am hopeless...
Hardly hopeless ; ). You know you could use this as material for a research project if you're in school. I don't know what you study or if you're an undergrad- maybe looking for a grad program. But if you added formal citations and formatting appropriate for a polysci paper, plus removing any colloquialisms and whatnot, you'd have a decent research paper on your hands here. I'm sure it could be useful in a practical manner, outside of the purely fun element of it.
