Ohio Demographic Maps

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Good maps, TJ.

Why are Mercer and Putnam so Catholic and still so Republican?

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I think that has more to do with the fact that there are far more blacks (usu. Protestant) than Hispanics (usu. Catholic) in Ohio. IIRC, white Catholics were still quite a bit more Democratic than white Protestants in Ohio.

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TJ, I had mentioned in a thread months ago that OH-11 was the best CD against the gay marriage ban. Are the white areas of OH-11 especially liberal or are the black areas less anti-gay than expected?

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Here is the 2008 Congressional election by county and by district:
This map has the vote in counties containing multiple districts totaled:

And this one just has lines drawn in at the loss of the total county vote:


Compare this election to the maps above. This is a bloodbath in the opposite direction as four ConservaDems are elected to seats they don't end up holding after 2010. There is a characteristic backwards-C shape of Democratic areas common to many Ohio elections: along Lake Erie, the eastern border, and along the Ohio River. The southeast is very heavily Democratic. In all of OH-6 and OH-18, Holmes and Knox are the only Republican counties. OH-16 was nearly swept by Boccieri despite containing several normally Republican counties. Kaptur and Sutton both won every county by comfortable margins. Ryan carried his part of Mahoning County with 87%.

Still, the western half of the state was heavily Republican, as was Steve LaTourette's district.

Can you do the same for the 2008 Presidential election?

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TJ, could you do more gay marriage maps, say by precinct or state house or senate district?