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Can somebody from the US please tell me what the deal with the District of Columbia (on the far left) is? Also, this is another darn fine visualisation from t
by pserwylo 14y ago
Can somebody from the US please tell me what the deal with the District of Columbia (on the far left) is?
Also, this is another darn fine visualisation from the NYT.
- yummyfajitas 14y agoBig cities in the US tend to be extremely left wing. A quick google search reveals this map: http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/president/map.html http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/president/map.html New York County (Manhattan), Chicago and SF look a lot like DC. LA a bit less so, but that's probably because a lot of LA is suburban.
- RyanMcGreal 14y agoBig cities in the US tend to be extremely moderately liberal, not extremely left wing. In any other industrialized country, the Democrats would be a conservative party.
- astine 14y agoIn any other country, the American left/right spectrum would not make sense.
- bobwaycott 14y agoIn case you were asking why it's on the map in the first place, it's because even though it is not a state and was initially forbidden, as the seat of government, to cast votes for the Pres/VP, that changed in 1961 with the 23rd Amendment, which granted DC a number of electoral votes equal to the least populous state. It's interesting to note that the entire South did not ratify the amendment, except Tennessee. Also, DC still does not have separate representation in the Congress. More info: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-third_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-third_Amendment_to_the_...)