Nate Silver has already documented this, but it’s interesting how the areas where people describe their ancestry as “American” were least likely to pick Barack Obama in the primary.
Largest Ancestry by County in the United States
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Map of Ancestry in the United States
Should New York City Secede From the Empire State?
It’s an absurd proposition right? Well, in light of tensions between the City and state over plans to ease traffic congestion in the five boroughs (Bloomberg wants to impose higher bridge tolls), at least one pundit thinks its a good idea.
“There is only one real solution to this problem long-term,” writes the The Current’s [...]
Digging a 50 State Strategy
In the top ten on Digg’s “World & Business” section today is an item titled “Visual Validations of the 50 State Electoral Strategy” that links to a University of Michigan page with some fascinating cartograms. The digger and the author of the Michigan site make the point that each state is hardly of a [...]
Mapping U.S. Demographics
I came across a great mapping device today called “US Demographics Visualizer” that’s produced by a company called idvsolutions. What they do is take Microsoft Virtual Earth software and then layer five measures of demographics over it: population, age, ethnicity, political and income. So, to give you an example, I took a screen shot of [...]
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