Two maps

[nancylebov]

A while ago, I asked for 2000 and 2004 purple county maps in the same format--behold the glory of the net: here they are--and not just side by side, but as an animated gif.

This probably isn't news for election junkies, but now I can see that the big red gains were Texas and about halfway north of it and Appalachian. I think the only area that got noticably bluer is the southwest.

Comments

Fascinating....

[(Anonymous)]

I love to look at these things in general, but I'm especially interested to see things like just one county in ?Oklahoma? which flipped from solid red to solid blue. You have to wonder what sort of campaigning happened there -- almost everywhere else had the small shifts you'd expect, rather than a complete flip-flop.

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