Want to depress yourself further? Look at Southern precinct results!

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Interesting that Macon County wasn't even one of Obama's top 5.

Sad to see the same degree of polarisation coming to Macon county as everywhere else in the Deep South, but it's not a surprise. It would be nice if it turns out not to have been quite so bad as elsewhere.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

You guys are making too big of a deal out of these numbers ( Iam concerned about LA). Most of the other southern states are not as racist as some of you are making them out to be.

Map on the left shows % vote Obama, map on the right shows % Black as of the last census. Or was it the other way round?

Actually the giveaway (beyond the choice of colours) is the crude key used for % Black and the massive movement of Blacks into some Atlanta suburbs.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

He did great in most fast-growing Southern metro areas, better than could have been expected.

He did well in areas that had been growing very quickly in most places. I wonder how much of that is related to house price woes.

Btw, in addition to the issues already raised about his poor results in white Democratic areas in the South, a general lack of appeal in some traditional working class areas (in addition to the metropolitan-rural thing) has to be added. Some trend maps;



(pattern somewhat exaggerated around Pittsburgh by media market stuff and so on)





...etc, etc, etc...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

New York's hardly comparable though.

Not the same extent, but it's interesting to see where the lowest swings in Upstate NY were.

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Will do.

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What's with Williams county, Ohio? It's a standard rural county isn't it?

You know all those counties in Indiana which are dominated by manufacturing, had hardly any obviously middle class jobs but which are (or at least were up until very recently) prosperous, even affluent? It's like them.

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It's that bulge-shaped area east of Raleigh that I don't really get; most of the rest seems to make sense (yeah, even Catawba et al. Sort of a Southern version of those places in Indiana mentioned above). Could be abother example of media market syndrome I guess; I've not checked.