What's the whitest >90% Obama precinct?

[Linus Van Pelt]

Going for a bit more population, there are some 90+ wards in Madison WI that are whiter than this Williamsburg precinct, all roughly on the east (i.e. non-university) side of the central isthmus.

Ward 32 - 84% white (87% by VAP), Obama 90% (Obama-McCain-other raw vote: 1,596-129-43)
Ward 33 - 91% white (93% by VAP), Obama 93% (2,355-133-51)
Ward 34 - 88% white (90% by VAP), Obama 94% (2,595-117-56)
Ward 35 - 90% white (90% by VAP), Obama 93% (1,645-75-47)
Ward 38 - 89% white (90% by VAP), Obama 90% (1,202-78-36)

[Linus Van Pelt]

Going for a bit more population, there are some 90+ wards in Madison WI that are whiter than this Williamsburg precinct, all roughly on the east (i.e. non-university) side of the central isthmus.

Ward 32 - 84% white (87% by VAP), Obama 90% (Obama-McCain-other raw vote: 1,596-129-43)
Ward 33 - 91% white (93% by VAP), Obama 93% (2,355-133-51)
Ward 34 - 88% white (90% by VAP), Obama 94% (2,595-117-56)
Ward 35 - 90% white (90% by VAP), Obama 93% (1,645-75-47)
Ward 38 - 89% white (90% by VAP), Obama 90% (1,202-78-36)

Geez, and these wards are from the non-university side of town? Obama presumably did even better in the UW neighborhoods, right? Though maybe those may not be as white? I dunno.

Remember that universities usually take students from a large area, so tend to actually be locally conservative in highly Liberal areas.  UC Berkley is the most Conservative part of the City of Berkley, since not all people who attend Berkley share the city's 90-95% Democratic voting tendencies.

I assume the UW areas have some Conservative youngsters from the Milwaukee burbs (and elsewhere)--at least more than 1 in 10 I'd assume.

Or they might be too Asian to qualify, but I wouldn't really know.

This. Here's the image of the 2008 data from Dave's App (reverse colors) where I got the info. Notice how the university and immediate surroundings (on the south shore of Lake Mendota at the western base of the isthmus) are a bit less D than most of the rest of the central city (though still generally Obama +70). (Edit: on Dave Bradlee's scale the most D is brightest blue without purple, not necessarily darkest blue).



I'm not an expert on the city but having been there a couple of times my basic impression is that of the very blue areas on the map, the ones SW of campus are well-off areas with lots of professors in big old homes, the ones at the south end of the city are minority areas, and the ones on the east side of downtown (with all of the white 90+D areas listed above) are rows of cute small old houses that were once working class and now have a lot of the sort of very liberal 20-somethings who like to live in places like that.

[Linus Van Pelt]

I'll take your word for it, but the map's color scheme actually makes the UW neighborhood you describe darker blue and hence more Democratic. Maybe it's just my eyes.

No, your eyes are fine - , but on Dave's scale, the strongest D is bright blue, whereas the more mixed areas get more purple - and thus sometimes darker.

[Linus Van Pelt]

Dave's App claims that there's a 99% white 96% Obama precinct in rural Fayette County PA, but it's almost certainly just an error - the county only has 2010 precinct results on its web site so we can't double-check this particular result, but the precinct voted for Toomey, and the raw vote total in 2010 is much larger than the supposed 2008 total.