Another alternative US states thread

[VPH]

Here's where the states migrate eastward.

What is our Delaware is now an integral part of Maryland. The State of New York refers to NYC and our northern New Jersey, upstate New York is a different state, and the State of New Jersey refers to our southern New Jersey and is a Delaware equivalent.

I'd imagine Nevada is a Safe R state, California has more EVs, and Arkansas is way more competitive with the addition of Memphis and many majority black river counties.

Kansas probably gets a Democratic seat!!

[bagelman]

[Ariosto]

Is there method to this madness? I can see you've moved the numbers around, but I can't see the reasoning behind it.

[bagelman]

Is there method to this madness? I can see you've moved the numbers around, but I can't see the reasoning behind it.

corresponds to

Here's where the states migrate eastward.

What is our Delaware is now an integral part of Maryland. The State of New York refers to NYC and our northern New Jersey, upstate New York is a different state, and the State of New Jersey refers to our southern New Jersey and is a Delaware equivalent.

I'd imagine Nevada is a Safe R state, California has more EVs, and Arkansas is way more competitive with the addition of Memphis and many majority black river counties.

It's something that would be more clear if I had artistic talent or the patience to actually create an electoral map from scratch after spending several hours copying and pasting numbers into calc.

[100% pro-life no matter what]

Is there method to this madness? I can see you've moved the numbers around, but I can't see the reasoning behind it.

corresponds to

Here's where the states migrate eastward.

What is our Delaware is now an integral part of Maryland. The State of New York refers to NYC and our northern New Jersey, upstate New York is a different state, and the State of New Jersey refers to our southern New Jersey and is a Delaware equivalent.

I'd imagine Nevada is a Safe R state, California has more EVs, and Arkansas is way more competitive with the addition of Memphis and many majority black river counties.

It's something that would be more clear if I had artistic talent or the patience to actually create an electoral map from scratch after spending several hours copying and pasting numbers into calc.

What were the margins in Arkansas, North Carolina, Ohio, and Oregon?

How would it look, assuming uniform change, if the national vote had been tied?

Also, it's hilarious that Nevada becomes our reddest (Atlas blue-ist) state.

[bagelman]

http://i.imgur.com/uEs765e.png

I spent way too long on this; an electoral map of the southern migration map (top of thread) that uses OTL borders, just to illustrate EVs and flipped states.

The box normally used for DC is used for WF, DC is absorbed into Maryland (which completely counters the net population loss for giving up Greater Baltimore in exchange for NOVA). Rhode Island and WF both have 3 EVs.

Trump wins with 282 EV. Wisconsin and Minnesota aren't called for days, and possibly Colorado as well. These narrow victories for Clinton are rendered moot when she loses Adirondack, a must win for Trump, and he wins one of the upper midwest state (MI). This election would take longer than a single night to be decided. The loss would be even more devastating for democrats, more like 2000 than 2004.

[Goldwater]

Oh hey, it's back! I always like these kind of threads. I assume you will be doing the rest of the maps too?

[bagelman]

Oh hey, it's back! I always like these kind of threads. I assume you will be doing the rest of the maps too?

yep

What an accurate prediction map might have looked like

What a potential map posted on Atlas before the election might look like

With now-laughable optimism about SC and GA, and the potential for ID to go tossup.

[AGA]

How would the westward map look?

[bagelman]

Trump wins with 282 EV. Wisconsin and Minnesota aren't called for days, and possibly Colorado as well. These narrow victories for Clinton are rendered moot when she loses Adirondack, a must win for Trump, and he wins one of the upper midwest state (MI). This election would take longer than a single night to be decided. The loss would be even more devastating for democrats, more like 2000 than 2004.


(map updated with proper shading)

[bagelman]

2012 results for northward migration

2016 results for northward migration

[bagelman]

Eastward migration

2012:

2016:

[bagelman]

Westward migration

(note: while the original map doesn't have it, I opted to include Orange County in AZ...)

2012:

2016:

Two counties in MN are enough to make the state vote D