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It would be great to get even more granular and get to the county level to show how even the "divided" counties are purple as well. My guess is that you might g

It would be great to get even more granular and get to the county level to show how even the "divided" counties are purple as well. My guess is that you might get some counties that are 100% Red or 100% Blue. These colors are great, but almost ultraviolet to my eyes. I can only look at the map for 5 seconds. Also, the color doesn't really tell me how far from 50/50 the states are.

NelsonMinar 14y ago
The burning, it hurts. I think the purple is like #17f00017f or something. Seriously, you can't just mix RGB like this; perceptual color scales like Cynthia Brewer has helped popularize are the right choice. http://colorbrewer2.org/ http://colorbrewer2.org/
pronoiac 14y ago
For anyone who wants to do this, the data's available: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/nov/07/us-2012-election-county-results-download http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/nov/07/us-2012-...
- hammock 14y ago
  I'm going to do it right now!
- pserwylo 14y ago
  I stumbled upon the same dataset, so did the following map: http://i.imgur.com/8YjOg.png http://i.imgur.com/8YjOg.png Here is some notes: https://gist.github.com/4034954 https://gist.github.com/4034954 Edit: If anything, I'd say that the counties themselves are more divided than I thought. The one which surprises me the most is the deep south of texas, which is quite blue. Also, I do not claim that I did this flawlessly, there is a chance I stuffed up and it is not showing the right data, but I don't really have the time to play with it for too long :)
  - mikeash 14y ago
    The first thing I noticed on your map (which is really nice, by the way) was that it's far more divisive than the per-state version. Most interesting. I think this just highlights what people have been saying for quite a while now, that the political divide in this country isn't red states versus blue states, but urban versus rural. If you go to a level that separates those, as per-county does but per-state doesn't, you see a much bigger divide.
  - jlarocco 14y ago
    South Texas results aren't too surprising. There's a huge Hispanic population down there.
    - pserwylo 14y ago
      Ah, of course. Thanks for pointing that out.
trhtrsh 14y ago
That's what's fun. The electoral college is red blue, but the states are purple. But the counties are red and blue again (which some purple). The most hotly contested states have (generally dense urban) blue city enclaves balancing against (generally sparse rural) red counties

NelsonMinar 14y ago

The burning, it hurts. I think the purple is like #17f00017f or something. Seriously, you can't just mix RGB like this; perceptual color scales like Cynthia Brewer has helped popularize are the right choice. http://colorbrewer2.org/ http://colorbrewer2.org/

pronoiac 14y ago

For anyone who wants to do this, the data's available: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/nov/07/us-2012-election-county-results-download http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/nov/07/us-2012-...

hammock 14y ago
I'm going to do it right now!
pserwylo 14y ago
I stumbled upon the same dataset, so did the following map: http://i.imgur.com/8YjOg.png http://i.imgur.com/8YjOg.png Here is some notes: https://gist.github.com/4034954 https://gist.github.com/4034954 Edit: If anything, I'd say that the counties themselves are more divided than I thought. The one which surprises me the most is the deep south of texas, which is quite blue. Also, I do not claim that I did this flawlessly, there is a chance I stuffed up and it is not showing the right data, but I don't really have the time to play with it for too long :)
- mikeash 14y ago
  The first thing I noticed on your map (which is really nice, by the way) was that it's far more divisive than the per-state version. Most interesting. I think this just highlights what people have been saying for quite a while now, that the political divide in this country isn't red states versus blue states, but urban versus rural. If you go to a level that separates those, as per-county does but per-state doesn't, you see a much bigger divide.
- jlarocco 14y ago
  South Texas results aren't too surprising. There's a huge Hispanic population down there.
  - pserwylo 14y ago
    Ah, of course. Thanks for pointing that out.

trhtrsh 14y ago

That's what's fun. The electoral college is red blue, but the states are purple. But the counties are red and blue again (which some purple). The most hotly contested states have (generally dense urban) blue city enclaves balancing against (generally sparse rural) red counties