Political Maps of the US
There’s plenty of creative cartography going on at the moment, as people render and rearrange North America along political lines:
- We’ve got Canada
2.0, very promising for trips to Baha. - A gradiated
view representing voting trends more subtly. Here’s the same one with
contour
lines for population. - Dave Pollard has an analogous
map of Canada. In his comments on that entry, I take Dave to task for
characterizing right-of-centre parties in Canada as "conservative/christian". - This one just shows the counties which
switched allegiance between 2000 and 2004. What’s the regional name for
the chunk of the US around Missouri and Kentucky? The Heartland, maybe?
UPDATE: Augie points out this great map that (presumably) reflects voting trends based on population density. The conclusion: if you live in a big city, you’re likey to have voted Democrat.
November 5th, 2004 at 9:31 pm
Haha! Canada 2.0 is great. Thanks for posting these, the princeton maps are particularly informative.
November 6th, 2004 at 2:05 am
My current favorite political map:
Electoral Map to Scale
November 6th, 2004 at 8:35 am
I like this one:
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/11/con04485.html
November 7th, 2004 at 7:19 am
More U.S. Presidential Election Maps
Election maps definitely have been a popular subject this past week: not only are different maps of the U.S. presidential results popping up all over the web, but traffic at The Map Room has more than tripled since Nov. 2…
November 7th, 2004 at 6:09 pm
Hey! In Canada 2.0, Vancouver Island belongs to the United State of Texas!
November 8th, 2004 at 11:24 am
My favorite:
http://www.esri.com/industries/elections/graphics/results2004_lg.jpg
November 8th, 2004 at 11:30 am
I was just looking at the map of which states switched. If I don’t miss my guess, the first county here in NJ that switched to the Republican from the Democrat is home to a town named “Red Bank.” (For those of you who are Kevin Smith fans, that’s where his comics shop is.)