Talk Elections

In this thread, anyone can post a map, and other posters can look at the patterns can guess what the map about.  It's not necessary that someone guesses correctly before another map can be posted.

I'll start.

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I'll check this thread and let you know if someone guesses correctly.

Deviation from "expected" vote based on state racial demographics?

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Nope.

Number of executions since death penalty reinstated. WV as a 0, and MO and OK punching above their weight, are the tells.

Yes, you've got it.

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The popular vote swing from 1928 to 1932?

Nothing to do with popular vote. Shades reflect "counts."

Something to do with the number of times the state voted Democratic for President between 1900 and 1950? I'm trying to account for Maine and Vermont together, plus Alaska, Hawaii, and DC not being counted.

Nope, but close. It the number of times each state has voted for a Franklin on the ticket - 1852, 1920, 1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944.

Does it have something to do with an election involving WJB or Woodrow Wilson?

No, and it is policy-based, not election-based

Legislation or poll numbers?

Ratio of state income tax rate to state sales tax rates (red states have higher (top marginal) state income tax rate than sales tax rate, blue states the inverse)?

You're on the right track

Red states have a state income tax, blue states don't?

No, there are only 8 states without income tax (I'm pretty sure they are all blue on this map), but this includes income and other types of taxes in some way.

Direct vs indirect taxes?

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College Football National Championship Game Participants in the BCS and CFP eras. Red signifies winners and blue signifies losing participants.

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Clue: Is related to an election held sometime between 1985 and 1999, inclusive.

^^^ Gubernatorial elections in 1990 seem to be the anchor of the map, but chronologically, there doesn't seem to be an exact match for the rest (i.e. results for 1987-1991; results for 1988-1992; etc).

The only thing I can figure (if it's in fact representative of gubernatorial results) is that you've skipped around and are using various non-consecutive election cycles for the off-year ones.

That was rather obvious, considering Alaska and Connecticut.

You're on the right track. Think about the part that I bolded above. Neither of your answers is correct, but you're not too far off.

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Anything to do with the Confederacy?

No, but it does seem to be a Southern thing.  It has to do with school policy, particularly its enforcement.  

https://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/school-discipline/images/2013-14-crdc-corporal-punishment-map-1200.png

Is it this?

Yep.  My map shows the percent of students hit in 2008.  It was at least 1.0% for each of the shaded states, 7.5 % for Mississippi.

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Interesting to see how much the practice has faded in the peripheral states in the past few years. I made this map a few years ago (http://imgur.com/CB11QRY) but based it solely off of the county level (since I couldn't ever find a national school district map and the data-set I was using was based off of counties even in some states with multiple school districts per county).

It's dropped significantly in places like KY, NC and the Mountain West. What is even more unfortunate is that in many cases, the children who are punished this way are disproportionately mentally handicapped or minorities. I remember how big the numbers from 2009-11 were in Robeson, NC, for instance, and it doesn't shock me to see it's the only remaining county in NC where the practice was still being used in the latter map.

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Mine was the overall tax burden, as calculated by Forbes.  They didn't have a national number, so I just put 25 states on each side.

Hint: My map has to do with presidential elections going back no earlier than the 1960s.

This doesn't have anything to do with electoral politics per se (though not too long ago, it rocked GA's).

Also, the fact that there are technically 25 states in each grouping is merely a coincidence.

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Another hint:  Think 1964 + more recently.

Hopefully this should do it:  1964 + the last three presidential elections.

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