Thanks.
If the white women and white men of Missouri were segregated from each other to such a degree that a gender gap in voting showed up on a county map, it would be no wonder the state had weird pregnancy politics.
I was curious if the shifts were all uniform or if there was more concetration in suburban parts of the state or rural. It appears a mostly uniform swing, but in some rural areas (northern MO) it was actually greater. Law of diminishing returns probably, but still...
There's a similar gender gap between white men and white women in the New York and New England states:
New York
Connecticut
and Massachusetts
But it didn't show up anywhere else in the nation... until outlandlishly pro-life Todd Akin managed to pull it off in Missouri.
Republicans have a minorities problem, but there's clearly room to grow among white women on the Democratic side.