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The Supreme Court on Tuesday handed a defeat to Alabama Republicans for the second time in three months, rejecting their latest attempt to use a congressional map that includes only one majority-Black district. The court in two related applications refused emergency requests from Republican state officials to block lower court rulings that invalidated the new map. Lower court proceedings to approve a new map are still ongoing. The decision was in line with the Supreme Court ruling against the state in June that reaffirmed a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act. There were no noted dissenting votes and...

Using Census data, we've figured out that half of the United States population is clustered in just the 146 biggest counties out of over 3000. Here's the map, with said counties shaded in. Below the map is the list of all the counties, so you can see if you live in one of them.

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has thrown out electoral maps drawn by federal judges in Texas that favored minorities. The unsigned opinion Friday left the fate of Texas' April primaries unclear.</p>

Maps and cartograms of the 2004 US presidential election results Michael Gastner, Cosma Shalizi, and Mark Newman University of Michigan Email: Thanks to everyone who wrote to us about the maps. We received so much email that we may not be able to reply to everyone, but we much appreciate all your comments and suggestions. Election results by state On election night and in the days since then, we have seen many maps that look like this (click on any of the maps for a larger picture): The (contiguous 48) states of the country are colored red or blue...

Election results by state On election night and in the days since then, we have seen many maps that look like this: The (contiguous 48) states of the country are colored red or blue to indicate whether a majority of their voters voted for the Republican candidate (George W. Bush) or the Democratic candidate (John F. Kerry) respectively. The map gives the superficial impression that the "red states" dominate the country, since they cover far more area than the blue ones. However, as pointed out by many others, this is misleading because it fails to take into account the fact...

Map day has become Map Weekend!Here they are in all their cartographic glory: All the election map post-mortems. (They were just lying around the internet gathering dust anyway). These graphic representations of the election's outcome are thought provoking. (Did I miss any? Send 'em to thebigpicture -at- optonline -dot- net)Be sure to checkout: Proportional Electoral Map (this one is my favorite -- because land doesn't vote, people do) Popular Vote, Population Density similar ideaRed & Blue World You know how the States voted; Here's how the World didPurple America a sentimental favoriteThe Kids Are AlrightHow the Youth of America voted...

Interesting map of Unemployment in last week's Time magazine. Looks like unemployment may not be much of an issue in PA, IA, MN (states lost by Bush), but could be in other areas. Feel free to comment: