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« on: August 12, 2012, 02:40:02 PM »

Similar type of thread to how would this person vote, but with a state. So to begin....

Mussingee (random name)

Population: 6,709,565
Urban Population: 45%
Major Cities: 2

Demographics:
White: 70%
Black: 24%
Hispanic: 4%
Asian: 1%

Baptist: 29%
Catholic: 24%
Methodist: 11%
Episcopalian: 4%
Other Christian: 14%
Jewish: 3%
No Religion: 9%

Economy
Logging, Mining, Tobacco

Politics
Senate: 1D, 1R
House: 55% R, 45% D
Governor: R

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« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2012, 04:53:24 PM »

Similar type of thread to how would this person vote, but with a state. So to begin....

Mussingee (random name)

Population: 6,709,565
Urban Population: 45%
Major Cities: 2

Demographics:
White: 70%
Black: 24%
Hispanic: 4%
Asian: 1%

Baptist: 29%
Catholic: 24%
Methodist: 11%
Episcopalian: 4%
Other Christian: 14%
Jewish: 3%
No Religion: 9%

Economy
Logging, Mining, Tobacco

Politics
Senate: 1D, 1R
House: 55% R, 45% D
Governor: R



sounds a lot like South Carolina. An R+8 state give or take.
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« Reply #2 on: August 13, 2012, 03:01:49 PM »

I was going to say it sounded like North Carolina.
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« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2012, 05:53:49 PM »
« Edited: August 14, 2012, 05:57:48 PM by NY Jew »

Similar type of thread to how would this person vote, but with a state. So to begin....

Mussingee (random name)

Population: 6,709,565
Urban Population: 45%
Major Cities: 2

Demographics:
White: 70%
Black: 24%
Hispanic: 4%
Asian: 1%

Baptist: 29%
Catholic: 24%
Methodist: 11%
Episcopalian: 4%
Other Christian: 14%
Jewish: 3%
No Religion: 9%

Economy
Logging, Mining, Tobacco

Politics
Senate: 1D, 1R
House: 55% R, 45% D
Governor: R


way to little info
Catholics are from what country?
how much of a overlap is there between Black and Baptists?
how gerrymandered is the state in the house?
voting age population or total?
Hispanics here legally?
size of major cities?

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« Reply #4 on: August 22, 2012, 06:59:21 AM »

Leans R.

Harbourside

Population: 33,954,245
Urban Population: 90%
Major Cities: 1

Demographics:
White: 81%
Black: 3%
Hispanic: 9%
Asian: 5%

Median Household Income: $77,825

Religion:
Catholic: 39%
Evangelical Protestant: 12%
Mainline Protestant: 24%
Jewish: 3%
Muslim: 2%
Other: 6%
Not Religious: 14%

Educational level: High school (91%), college (54%)

Politics:
Senators: 2 D
House: 33 D, 17 R
Governor: D
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« Reply #5 on: August 22, 2012, 02:51:22 PM »
« Edited: August 22, 2012, 02:53:52 PM by MilesC56 »

Probably D, though perhaps swingy in certain statewide races.


Population: 6.7 million
Urban Population: 38%
Major Cities: 2

Demographics:
White: 84%
Black: 10%
Hispanic: 5%
Asian: 1%

Median Household Income: $44,500

Religion:
Catholic: 29%
Evangelical Protestant: 15%
Mainline Protestant: 37%
Jewish: 1%
Muslim: 1%
Other: 4%
Not Religious: 13%

Educational level: High school (87%), college (36%)

Politics:
Senators: 2R
House: 6 D, 3 R
Governor: D
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« Reply #6 on: August 22, 2012, 06:29:54 PM »

Interesting. I think it'd be R but the evangelical and black population seems rather low.
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« Reply #7 on: August 22, 2012, 06:56:57 PM »

Miles' one would vote R (I think). Could be a Midwestern or Great Plains state, though the evangelical population is rather low, I agree.

Population: 7.4 million
Urban Population: 76%
Rural Population: 24%
Major Cities: 1 major metro area, 4 somewhat smaller cities

Demographics:
White: 62%
Black: 7%
Hispanic: 25%
Asian: 5%
Native American/Pacific Islander: 1%
 
Median Household income: $61, 279

Religion:
Catholic: 33%
Evangelical Protestant: 26%
Mainline Protestant: 21%
Jewish: 1%
Other: 1%
Not Religious: 18%

Educational level: High school (94%), Bachelor's degree (44%), Graduate degree (18%)

Politics:
Senators: 1 R, 1 D
House: 6 R, 4 D
Governor: R
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« Reply #8 on: August 22, 2012, 09:31:26 PM »

Trending D, IMO. Kinda reminds me of Nevada.
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« Reply #9 on: August 23, 2012, 12:13:09 PM »

New Forebears

Population: 72,809,204
Urban Population: 97%
Major Cities: 93

Demographics:
White non-Hispanic: 37%
Black: 44%
Hispanic: 15%
Asian: 4%

Catholic: 1%
Latter-Day Saint: 30%
Other Christian: 7%
Jewish: 12%
No Religion: 49%

Economy
nuclear weapons manufacturing

Politics
Senate: ??
House: ??
Governor: ?
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« Reply #10 on: August 23, 2012, 12:28:01 PM »

Tweed, the state that you're describing could only exist in Escape from New York.

Strong D, obviously.
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« Reply #11 on: August 23, 2012, 12:38:54 PM »

Population: 14,243,522
Urban Population: 71%
Rural Population: 29%
Major cities: 6

Demographics:

White non-Hispanic: 81%
Black: 3%
Hispanic: 11%
Asian: 5%

Religion:

Catholic: 30%
Evangelical Protestant: 29%
Mainline Protestant: 21%
LDS: 11%%
Jewish: 1%
Other: 3%
Not religious: 15%

Economy:
Military, defense-related industries, aerospace, telecommunications, internet technology, financial services, insurance, professional services

Median household income: $86,825

Educational level: High school (97%), Bachelor's degree (61%), Graduate degree (20%)

Politics:

Senate: 2 R
House: 14 R, 7 D
Governor: R




 
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« Reply #12 on: August 23, 2012, 01:19:19 PM »

Reminds me of a larger South Carolina, except for the low percentage of blacks. Some kind of cross between South Carolina and Pennsylvania, maybe, although the LDS percentage would probably place it somewhere in the West. Regardless, it's probably consistently and fairly strongly Republican.
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« Reply #13 on: August 23, 2012, 01:24:58 PM »

Reminds me of a larger South Carolina, except for the low percentage of blacks. Some kind of cross between South Carolina and Pennsylvania, maybe, although the LDS percentage would probably place it somewhere in the West. Regardless, it's probably consistently and fairly strongly Republican.

Yeah I was thinking of the interior West in general-affluent, educated, white, a high LDS percentage, and lots of defense and military jobs.
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« Reply #14 on: August 23, 2012, 05:05:28 PM »

Windotchee

Population 3,788,000
Urban 64%
Major cities (500k+) 1
Minor cities (150k+) 4

White 54%
Hispanic 19%
Black 14%
Asian 6%
Amerindian 2%
Mixed/Other: 5%

Catholic 37%
Mainline Protestant 22%
Evangelical Protestant 19%
Jewish 2%
Islamic 2%
Other 3%
No religion 15%

Economy: Services, tourism, minor manufacturing, logging, cereals, military, refining, tertiary education.

High School 93%, Bachelors 51%, Graduate 28%

Median Income ~$63,000

Senate 2 R
House 3 D 2 R
Governor D
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« Reply #15 on: August 23, 2012, 11:50:18 PM »

Kinda boring if you already give the politics of the state.
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« Reply #16 on: August 24, 2012, 12:55:02 PM »

Kinda boring if you already give the politics of the state.
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« Reply #17 on: August 25, 2012, 01:09:42 AM »

Sure, if you caqn't recognise that Presidential voting patterns don't follow internal votes.
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« Reply #18 on: August 25, 2012, 03:48:39 AM »
« Edited: August 25, 2012, 03:52:01 AM by koenkai »

Time for something super-tricky!

Hourai Islands

Population 544,000
Urban 32%
Major cities (500k+) 0
Minor cities (150k+) 0
Cities (50k+) 1

White 19%
Black 2%
Filipino: 30%
Chinese: 10%
Japanese: 3%
Pacific Islander 36%

Catholic 43%
Protestant 33%
Mormon 21%
Other 3%
No religion 0%

Educational level: High school (71%), college (16%)

Economy: Military, Textiles, Military, Tourism, Military, Fishing, Military, Exotic Agriculture, Military

Median household income: $30,126

Politics
Senate: ??
House: ??
Governor: ??
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« Reply #19 on: August 25, 2012, 06:19:00 AM »

Seems like Hawaii - Safe D.
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« Reply #20 on: August 25, 2012, 06:25:14 AM »

Barberton

Population: 18,603,000
Urban: 99%
Major cities: 1

White (non-Hispanic): 85%
Black: 1%
Asian: 2%
Hispanic: 10%
Other: 2%

Catholic: 23%
Mainline Protestant: 31%
Evangelical Protestant: 10%
Mormon: 14%
Other: 5%
Not Religious: 17%

Educational level: High school (82%), college (25%)

Economy: Gambling, tourism, services, fishing

Median household income: $102,100
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« Reply #21 on: August 25, 2012, 08:38:21 PM »

Sure, if you caqn't recognise that Presidential voting patterns don't follow internal votes.

They tend to have a pretty high correlation, which makes the exercise less interesting.
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« Reply #22 on: August 28, 2012, 04:54:43 PM »


Ahah, pacific island voting patterns are very interesting. Hawaii is actually an abberation among the Pacific Islands for not being very religious (due to many many more larger Japanese/Chinese).

The Pacific Islands are some of the most religious places on Earth. For example, the Northern Marianna Islands has no Democrats in its lower house and one Democrat in its upper house.
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« Reply #23 on: August 28, 2012, 05:10:24 PM »

Incidentally, koenkai, your name for your state is rather whimsical. I like it. Am I correct in assuming that this 'Hourai' is 蓬莱?
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« Reply #24 on: August 28, 2012, 05:58:05 PM »

Incidentally, koenkai, your name for your state is rather whimsical. I like it. Am I correct in assuming that this 'Hourai' is 蓬莱?

Hey, it was the first thing that came to mind. Tongue
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