Dallasfan65's MA Town Map Thread

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Very interesting, please continue.

For shades, I simply copy/paste those of the official Atlas map key.

Much appreciated!

But my main problem is.. I'm illiterate with MS Paint.

Well, it's a bit hard to explain it... First you have to copy the pic, then paste it on your paint file. Finally, you have to use a tool that allows you to select a color on your pic and use this color. Sorry, but I don't know how to say it better.

Hmmm.. I will definetly check that out. Thanks man.

The tool looks like an eye-dropper.

If you're shading the maps, it's probably a good idea to copy (or enter) the values into an excel spreadsheet and then use formulas to calculate the percentages. Otherwise, you're stuck punching numbers into a calculator all day.

This thread looks promising, keep the maps coming! Let me know if I can help with anything, since, as you know, I'm deep into this stuff as well.

By the way, there's no need to bother with 1992 and following elections: I've taken care of them. (1992 is the top left map in my signature, 2000 is bottom right)

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Wow, Reagan won Edgartown. I'd say impressive, but considering the landslide...

Eh, Edgartown is the most conservative in Dukes County, so Charlie Baker came about 8% short in 2010. It should be in play for a competitive Republican statewide. Now, Reagan winning Chilmark would be impressive.

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I wonder in what year Western Mass, the Amherst periphery, the Route 128 corridor and Cape Cod/Islands each started voting hard Democratic. 1964? 1968? 1976?

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I'd love to see if Anderson won any towns in 1980, though I suspect he didn't. Good work so far.

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He won the big towns, and that's all that matters.

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Dallasfan, I think your 1928 map is missing Enfield (one of the Quabbin towns).

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It seems to be a "swing" or marginal town in the early 20th century. Though it voted Democratic in '28, it was Republican in '24 and also in the 1940s. Once it started attracting the LGBT community in the 60s and 70s, the Democratic margins really took off.

[homelycooking]

Wow, that's neat! Anything else you need, Dallasfan?

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Comparing it with 1996, for example :



This despite a nearly 20-points rep swing.

To be fair, though, 1996 had something that 1964 didn't: Perot.

[homelycooking]

Comparing it with 1996, for example :



This despite a nearly 20-points rep swing.

To be fair, though, 1996 had something that 1964 didn't: Perot.

Perot doesn't really matter because I'm reasoning in terms of margins of vicotry. In 1964, Johnson was ahead of Goldwater by 53 points, and in 1996 Clinton was ahead of Dole by 33 points.

In terms of the aggregate margin of victory, you're right, but what I meant was that the presence of Perot in 1996 likely caused many towns to have a Clinton margin of victory rather than a Dole margin of victory. That manifests itself on the map as more red towns and fewer blue, which is what I thought you were getting at by comparing the overall color of the 1964 and 1996 maps.

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The Republican candidate in all of the general election maps that have been posted here from 1912 to the present has won Granville every time - even in 1964 and even in 1996. Since I live just south of the border from that town, I can understand why. 

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Interesting. I guess it must have been around 1988 when Democrats started winning the Rte. 128 corridor (Lexington, Concord, Acton, etc.)

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FDR winning Washington? Strange.

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I think you could improve that 1964 map by using more distinct colors. I know you want to make them all blue-ish, but changing the colors to red-blue-yellow-green would make the map clearer.

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Here's a contribution of mine to your thread, Dallasfan. 2010 Congressional elections aggregate and by individual district.

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Hey! That's my turf, Masshole!

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Here's another one, Dallas.

1988 Presidential.

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Well, to be fair, we do about as much collaboration as competition.

Dallas, I'll do 1984 next.

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Solid work!

(Democratic wins in northern Grafton County - forestry/mining?)

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If you're looking to do 1994, I've got that map for CT as well.

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A great thread is resurrected! Marvelous.

Dallas, do you have data from state legislative races in 2006, 2008 or 2010?

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A great thread is resurrected! Marvelous.

Dallas, do you have data from state legislative races in 2006, 2008 or 2010?

I do not.

I could attempt to find them, though.

No problem, only if you have time. Thanks!

[homelycooking]

Can you give us one of Bedford Falls?

It's A Wonderful Life?

This is beautiful! Why the Republican strength in Springfield? And what happened in Haverhill to make the people there elect a Socialist?

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Interesting results from Heath. It seems that McCarthy and Anderson delayed the inevitable swing to the Democrats. Was it all from an influx of college kids?

College kids? In Heath?

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Interesting results from Heath. It seems that McCarthy and Anderson delayed the inevitable swing to the Democrats. Was it all from an influx of college kids?

College kids? In Heath?

Got confused by an earlier post. Still, an interesting election when Mondale is the first one to win it in years.

Yeah, by the end of Reagan years, the old paleo-conservative ruralist attraction of the Republican Party had begun to wear thin in Western Mass, and nearly everything west of the Connecticut River started to vote for Democrats like crazy. Agrarian identities are no longer quite so important out there.