How Red is your state?

Princeton ^ | 11/10/2004 | Robert J. Vanderbei

[George W. Bush]

An animated GIF which switches between the results in 2000 and in 2004. That county that is green shows on the 2000 map and the northeast showed black in 2000. The black areas indicate places where the return data wasn't submitted or where county returns don't coincide with actual election districts.

I thought this was an interesting way to see how individual counties got redder or bluer or more purple.

The data was based on return data at UsaToday. The fellow who assembled this map has other interesting maps as well. Look here for his home page at Princeton.

Interesting to study.

[GarySpFc]

Notice the legend. There is far more blue than red in what appears to be an attempt to push to negate the red maps.

[JCEccles]

The map is quite visibly redder in 2004. It pulses like a heartbeat, changing from a oxygen-poor venous blue in 2000 to an oxygen rich arterial red in 2004.

Powerful imagery!

[jveritas]

Exactly.

This map is worth crap.

[Dan from Michigan]

WTF is my county purple?

It went 63% for Bush.

[SuperSonic]

You can view county by county results here for Michigan:
CNN.com Election Results

[lilylangtree]

half blue and half red as I expected.

[smonk]

mississippi was right at 60%. I think only alabama turned out a larger percentage for W.

[heartwood]

I am a red voter in a blue town in a red county in a blue state in a RED country hooray!

I live very near Princeton. I have a friend who lives there. The gas station guy asked who she voted for. The young lady who came by to get out the vote asked who she voted for. In Princeton, when you get out the vote, you get out about a 75% vote for Kerry. All sorts of nervy people asked who she voted for.

[gd124]

Notice the legend. There is far more blue than red in what appears to be an attempt to push to negate the red maps.

The legend has exactly the same amount of blue as red, unless you count purple as blue, but purple is what you get when you mix blue and red...

Not everything is politically motivated.

[MarshallDillon]

Col! Austin is the blue dot on most Texas maps. But hey, we're trying hard to get better. Its all those UT students - 50 thousand of them - allowed to vote in Austin.

[MarshallDillon]

Cool! Austin is the blue dot on most Texas maps. But hey, we're trying hard to get better. Its all those UT students - 50 thousand of them - allowed to vote in Austin.

[George W. Bush]

WTF is my county purple? It went 63% for Bush.

Dunno. I'm just a trusting soul here, relying on the guy from Princeton and his UsaToday data.

Given that he's an academic, I guess I just assume he won't risk the embarassment of a skewed map which would be found out by his own students.

Of course, I live in a county that was all-Red in 2000 and 2004. So I don't focus on much else.

So, is the shade of purple more reddish than bluish for your county? Perhaps you should look at the legend and see if it matches the purple at 63% up from the blue to the red.

[George W. Bush]

I am a red voter in a blue town in a red county in a blue state in a RED country hooray!

Dunno why but your description tickled me. But that's why maps like this one are so interesting.