Homely's new maps thread

[Vazdul (Formerly Chairman of the Communist Party of Ontario)]

Wow, Mansfield went from Solid R to Solid D quick!

[homelycooking]

Wow, Mansfield went from Solid R to Solid D quick!

It's no longer home to the "Connecticut Agricultural College"... You'll notice that the New Left movement (and the Civil Rights movement, and the Vietnam War...) kicked in just as Mansfield was moving rapidly to solid Democratic territory.

And that isn't even the strongest R-to-D shift in CT. Stay tuned.

[Torie]

What is happening in the NW corner of the state in CT?

[muon2]

What is happening in the NW corner of the state in CT?

It looks like it's matching the area to the north in MA that went from R in the 80's to uniformly D today. Similarly I see a trend in NE CT that seems to match exurban trends in MA that is near to Scott Brown's home area.

[homelycooking]

Wow, look at Cornwall. From R+26 to D+21. Litchfield County as a whole has been shifting Republican, though, because of diminished strength for Democrats in the old industrial towns (with the largest populations).

[nclib]

HC, do you have any Lieberman-Weicker maps from 1988? Always interesting to see conservative Dem vs. liberal Repub.

[homelycooking]

The peculiar thing about this map is that it was a tight contest between Lieberman and Weicker in almost every town. There were only about a dozen towns above 60% for either of the candidates.

[nclib]

Not surprising, since the far-left and far-right would be swing voters. Do you have the county numbers?

[homelycooking]

Here you go.

[homelycooking]

Two more goodies:




...and I'm off to Maryland. See you in three weeks, darlings!

[homelycooking]

"You look sweet enough to eat. I get a cavity just looking at you!"

[MilesC56]

Great map! Very interesting.

[bore]

As usual, great maps , just a question though which states do you actually have data for?

[homelycooking]

As usual, great maps , just a question though which states do you actually have data for?

I'm sorry, I have no idea what you mean.

[bore]

As usual, great maps , just a question though which states do you actually have data for?

I'm sorry, I have no idea what you mean.

As in, which states can you actually make those types of precinct maps for?

[MilesC56]

As usual, great maps , just a question though which states do you actually have data for?

I'm sorry, I have no idea what you mean.

As in, which states can you actually make those types of precinct maps for?

All of them; I just pull the precinct shape files from DRA for my maps.

[homelycooking]

You can see from comparing these two maps that the correlation between % white and % McCain gets stronger as one goes south in Delmarva. In the lower 3 counties of Maryland (Wicomico, Somerset, Worcester) and Virginia, the white vote for Obama cannot be much more than 20%. The white population there is either predominantly rural, ancestrally tied to the land, involved in agriculture, and segregated de facto into mostly white communities apart from the black population or located in a few wealthy, upscale beach resorts. In Virginia especially, there is no commuter population ($15 each way on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge/Tunnel!) and the largest town is home to only 3,000. In Kent/New Castle and the Rt. 50 counties near Annapolis, the white vote might be as much as 40% - the communities there are somewhat more suburban, more educated and liberal and more ethnically diverse.

[homelycooking]

You can't stop this sh**t, hater!

[ModerateCoward]

This is totally irrelevant, but your name means ugly kitchens right now.

[Senator MaxQue]

This is totally irrelevant, but your name means ugly kitchens right now.

I think his previous name was that, but in Dutch.

[homelycooking]

This is totally irrelevant, but your name means ugly kitchens right now.

It looks impenetrably Russian, which is good enough for me so long as it approximates my username. Unless you'd like to suggest a better translation...

[homelycooking]

Complete CT PVI chart! It's amazing.

[Bacon King]

That's awesome.

[nclib]

Can you do a RI Sen 2006 comparison map--Chafee/Laffey and Chafee/Whitehouse, preferably combined into one map?

[homelycooking]

Can you do a RI Sen 2006 comparison map--Chafee/Laffey and Chafee/Whitehouse, preferably combined into one map?

I'm not sure what you meant. What sort of comparison are you looking for? And what do you mean by "combined into one map"?