2012 White Obama Lovers Map by County Project: COMPLETE!

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Osceola must be a mistake - a heavily Hispanic county that voted 62% Obama overall and whites are 57% Obama?

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Are you counting Hispanic whites as white?

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Are you counting Hispanic whites as white?

If not, the TX border counties are extremely high.

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Also in Texas, the Hispanics are more Democratic along the border and in areas with high % of Hispanics.

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Also, I'm playing around with new color schemes for the "Who Won the White Vote?" map. This is one I'm digging at the moment:

That map is a great idea. For the first map, it would be good to have some state outline.

I understand giving Obama all counties projected as 48% or more for consistency, though Carroll County, NH can be guaranteed white for Romney since Romney won the county 49.7%-48.9% IRL and the county is almost all-white and was projected at Obama 48%.

Edit: several counties in Iowa are in the same situation as Carroll, NH.

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Would love to see the rest of this, but for now, I crunched some data.

Best Obama:

Bronx, NY 89%
Washington, DC 87%
Prince George's, MD 87%
Manhattan, NY 81%
Philadelphia, PA 81%

Best Obama that is not entirely one city:

Prince George's, MD 87%
Berkshire, MA 76%
Suffolk, MA 75%
Windham, VT 73%
Dukes, MA 73%
Hudson, NJ 73%

Worst Obama among large cities:

Harris (Houston), TX 23%
Duval (Jacksonville), FL 25%
Oklahoma (OKC), OK 32%
Shelby (Memphis), TN 32%
Hamilton (Cincinnati), OH 34%

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Comparing the best white Obama county in the state vs. most pro-gay county in each state in the gay marriage initiatives, since there is of course a correlation:

                  Gay      White Obama
Alabama      Sumter      Greene   
Arkansas      Pulaski      Pulaski/Washington
Florida        Monroe      Broward
Georgia       Athens-Clarke      DeKalb      
Kentucky      Fayette        Elliott
Louisiana      Orleans        Orleans
Maine         Cumberland      Cumberland
Maryland      Montgomery      Prince George's
Michigan      Washtenaw      Washtenaw
Minnesota      Hennepin      St. Louis
Mississippi      Tunica       Noxubee/Marshall
Missouri      St. Louis city      St. Louis city   
Nebraska      Douglas       Lancaster      
North Carolina      Orange      Orange
North Dakota      Grand Forks      Ransom
Ohio             Athens           Athens
Oklahoma      Cleveland      Okmulgee/Muskogee
South Carolina      Charleston      Orangeburg
Tennessee      Nashville-Davidson      Nashville-Davidson/Houston
Texas          Travis                Travis   
Virginia      Charlottesville (city)      Petersburg (city)   
Wisconsin      Dane              Dane

Many are either the same or both counties are at near the top of the other category. Others (GA, MD, VA) have the best white Obama county having a high black population, pulling down the gay marriage result.

Elliott County, KY votes on economic issues. Broward, FL has many elderly Democrats. ND is surprising--Ransom County seems pretty non-descript.

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Great work! Costilla, CO at 81% is questionable.