2012 White Obama Lovers Map by County Project: COMPLETE!

[Bandit3 the Worker]

KY has been added.

2012 statewide share of the white vote for Obama: 31.5%

I'm not sure of some of these numbers. I'm sure Campbell County was over 35%, since Obama did a bit better than that overall, and the county is very, very heavily white. (Most nonwhite people who I knew growing up lived in other counties.)

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For how white Kentucky is, I'm surprised how Republican white voters are, especially in comparison to Tennessee, which is much blacker.

Most of Obama's worst counties in Kentucky have hardly any people, and are losing population.

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One thing that might be interesting sometime would be a "bivariate" map that shows each county's urban percentage and Republican percentage together.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

I notice that even among whites, Obama did better in the urban areas, but you can still see traces of the pre-2000 voting patterns on this map (from before the days of the urban/rural split). For instance, despite Cincinnati being a huge urban area, Obama generally does better the further you get from Cincinnati, until you pass the next closest major cities. On this map, Obama actually did better in some very rural areas than in some very urban areas. It's like it's 1988 all over again.

Cincinnati used to be much more conservative than the nearest other metropolitan areas - Dayton, Lexington, Louisville, Indianapolis, Columbus, Huntington - even though Cincinnati at the time was bigger. This map has traces of that old pattern.

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Kind of reminds me of a point made on DailyKos once, Obama did better amongst whites in Michele Bachmann's district than he did in the country at large.

This is part of the old pre-2000 pattern. Minnesota used to be one the very most Democratic states, but now it's been surpassed by more urban states.

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A bunch of the counties in Kentucky that start with 'M' are jumbled. For instance, I clicked on Mason County, and it gave me the results for Marion County.

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Also, someone mentioned Kosciusko IN. I think I read once that this county has some very conservative religious sect, and that's why it's so Republican.

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Those counties in Kentucky are in the right locations now.

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I notice for Potter County (which includes most of Amarillo), the white vote for Obama is ZERO.