Homely's new maps thread

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I've updated and expanded the PVI chart to include New Haven County. PVIs for all towns back to 1952.

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Wow, Mansfield went from Solid R to Solid D quick!

It's no longer home to the "Connecticut Agricultural College"... You'll notice that the New Left movement (and the Civil Rights movement, and the Vietnam War...) kicked in just as Mansfield was moving rapidly to solid Democratic territory.

And that isn't even the strongest R-to-D shift in CT. Stay tuned.

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Wow, look at Cornwall. From R+26 to D+21. Litchfield County as a whole has been shifting Republican, though, because of diminished strength for Democrats in the old industrial towns (with the largest populations).

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The peculiar thing about this map is that it was a tight contest between Lieberman and Weicker in almost every town. There were only about a dozen towns above 60% for either of the candidates.

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Here you go.

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Two more goodies:




...and I'm off to Maryland. See you in three weeks, darlings!

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"You look sweet enough to eat. I get a cavity just looking at you!"

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As usual, great maps , just a question though which states do you actually have data for?

I'm sorry, I have no idea what you mean.

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You can see from comparing these two maps that the correlation between % white and % McCain gets stronger as one goes south in Delmarva. In the lower 3 counties of Maryland (Wicomico, Somerset, Worcester) and Virginia, the white vote for Obama cannot be much more than 20%. The white population there is either predominantly rural, ancestrally tied to the land, involved in agriculture, and segregated de facto into mostly white communities apart from the black population or located in a few wealthy, upscale beach resorts. In Virginia especially, there is no commuter population ($15 each way on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge/Tunnel!) and the largest town is home to only 3,000. In Kent/New Castle and the Rt. 50 counties near Annapolis, the white vote might be as much as 40% - the communities there are somewhat more suburban, more educated and liberal and more ethnically diverse.

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You can't stop this sh**t, hater!

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This is totally irrelevant, but your name means ugly kitchens right now.

It looks impenetrably Russian, which is good enough for me so long as it approximates my username. Unless you'd like to suggest a better translation...

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Complete CT PVI chart! It's amazing.

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Can you do a RI Sen 2006 comparison map--Chafee/Laffey and Chafee/Whitehouse, preferably combined into one map?

I'm not sure what you meant. What sort of comparison are you looking for? And what do you mean by "combined into one map"?

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Here you go, nclib:

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A map of the 2008 GOP strength by town in New England.

Looks rather unremarkable, until you realize that it's rendered in a CONTINUOUS COLOR SCALE.

And then it blows your mind.

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Updated CT PVI chart.

Greenwich, for the first time in its history, is more Democratic than the nation as a whole.

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Homely is there any way you can do one for Maryland's Marriage Equality measure?

I don't think MD has published their official results yet, but I'll see what I can do about that soon.

Here is New England's 2012 presidential town map (bust out your spectrometers, 'cause it's red-shifting like crazy):

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Lovely work. 

Are you going to do a swing map for 2008-2012 soon?

Yeah, and a 2000-2012 swing map as well.

Suffice it to say that there's lots of goodies in store for the next few weeks.

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Here is the 2008-2012 swing:



Compare to the 2004-2008 swing:

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Cambridge, VT swung to Obama. That town won't stop proving why it's such a great place

Great maps, btw

Thanks. Obama's performance in Vermont leads you to wonder how many more percentage points the Democrats can squeeze out of places like Putney and Norwich and Marlboro - they're getting close to 90% in these all-white towns.

Lovely work.  

Are you going to do a swing map for 2008-2012 soon?

Yeah, and a 2000-2012 swing map as well.

I started a trend!

Nice pun. Well, to be fair, I did make a 2000-2008 map early last year...

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HA! Take that, leisure time.

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Wait, didn't Greenwich vote for Romney on your map of New England?

Yep.

Updated CT PVI chart.

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