An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2016 Election

New York Times ^

[outpostinmass2]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/upshot/election-2016-voting-precinct-maps.html#9.50/40.832/-73.613

[outpostinmass2]

Click the link.

[outpostinmass2]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/upshot/election-2016-voting-precinct-maps.html#9.50/40.832/-73.613

[al_c]

And THAT is why we have the electoral college.

[SamAdams76]

It's a mostly red nation. Problem is, the blue areas are more dense in population (urban areas). In the big urban cities, you have more welfare, illegals, and other government dependents. Then in the suburbs, you have the superior nose-in-the-air limousine liberals.

Other than that, it's Trump country.

NYT does one thing right - election results. They were the first ones to see the Trump victory. By 9:30, the NYT website clearly showed me that Trump was on his way to victory while everybody else was in freak-out mode for several more hours.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Remember, only uneducated hicks voted for Trump according to the left...

[TexasGurl24]

I would love to see detailed analysis on what makes city dwellers so much more likely to be far left liberal democrats.

Even in the most conservative locales there is a small island of blue (or at least bluer) in a sea of red.

As population density goes up, it seems that reliance on the government increases.

I’d like to figure out the “why.”

[BlueLancer]

bump for later ...

[ealgeone]

There’s your CW 2 battlefield.

[nwrep]

High (some would say excessive) education. The more time you spend in Academia, the more statist impulses and instincts you develop, and the deeper you believe in government's innate goodness and ability to solve problems...

[b4me]

not so red as I thought. too much baby blue let alone the deep blue urban areas.

[rktman]

Need you be reminded that the popular vote is the one that matters? 🍿🍻😹. Yeah, the founders weren't as stupid as the libodems want us to think.

[outpostinmass2]

Welfare dependency followed by single women are the 2 biggest voting blocks of the Democrat party. Cities have large amounts of both. I was pleasantly surprised at the number of Trump precincts in New York City. My perception has changed quite a bit of that city.

[BunnySlippers]

Very interesting!

South of the City of Los Angeles there is a lot of Trump country!

[doorgunner69]

I would love to see detailed analysis on what makes city dwellers so much more likely to be far left liberal democrats.

High proportions of Gibsmedats and Dindus.

All totally dependent on free stuff to keep breeding more of them.

[robowombat]

Link won’t load.

[Vendome]

I was with people this weekend who are Dems but, found Hillary Loathsome and they voted for Trump

Gawd, I hope they keep discussing raising taxes...

[outpostinmass2]

The link loads for me.

[outpostinmass2]

It really only matters how people vote in battle ground states. I’m only interested in what those people think.

[Reeses]

what makes city dwellers so much more likely to be far left liberal democrats

As population density increases, property becomes more communal. City slickers own very little personal property and share in some way almost everything. More rules, enforcement, and taxes, are required to make it work.

Leftism is fundamentally driven by envy which is itself a side effect of vanity. City slickers are reminded all day long there are many people in the world with more wealth, beauty, status. Vanity is a protective response, and envy soon follows.

Studies of happiness uniformly come to the conclusion that maximum happiness occurs at a population density of about 400 people per square mile. Anything less than 800 people per square mile is a Trump voting density.

[miss marmelstein]

Thanks! This was fun. I’m moving and it was fun seeing how my new neighborhood voted street by street. Sometimes the Times gets it right. Rarer and rarer, though.