[Source: New York Times]
Does President Obama’s call to authorize oil exploration off the Southern coast and in Alaska help him in those states? Marginally. Maybe in Virginia and Alaska; probably not in Florida.
Does it help him nationally with voters? Most definitely.
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Map of the Day: Oil Fields Now Open for Exploration
Iraqi Electoral Map Clearly Illustrates Divides
I usually focus solely on American electoral maps, but considering the sizable American investment in Iraq, I thought that I’d post the electoral map of the recent parliamentary elections there.
Here’s a great map from our friends at 538.
Ayad Allawi’s Iraqiya (Iraqi nationalism) coalition is intended as a secular party that cuts across sectarian [...]
Political Geography Week in Review: Happy Holidays
I hope you all had an enjoyable holiday vacation. If you were like me and took a few days off from news, then you may have some digging out to do. So I pulled together a review of some of the biggest stories in political geography from the last few weeks. Here it goes:
We learned [...]
Southern Piedmont: Where NASCAR Meets the NASDAQ
When Andrew Jackson roamed the hills of the Carolinas, northern Georgia and eastern Tennessee, it was still frontier, and for generations the southern Piedmont remained economically and culturally isolated. Today, however, Old Hickory might be surprised to learn what this area has become.
Atlanta, a railroad junction with a few thousand souls before the Civil War, [...]
Southerners Confused about Obama’s Birthplace
A new Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll shows that most Americans think Obama was born in the United States. The exception was the South:
[Chart credit: Political Animal]
More specifically, it was white Southerners who are most uncertain about his birth. David Weigel at The Washington Independent writes:
The proportion of white Southern voters with doubts about [...]
The Geography of Lincoln and Lee’s Legacies
On President Lincoln’s 200 birthday earlier this month, I posted a map showing that most states who fought for General Lee and the Rebs voted for John McCain, while most states that supported President Lincoln and the Feds chose Barack Obama. Most people know that this is an axiom of modern American politics. [...]
Where Do Military Recruits Come From?
Dante Chinni at the Patchwork Nation blog has a new map up that busts three prominent myths about where our military recruits come from:
Myth 1: The Military is Over-Represented by Southerners: In his fascinating book, “Born Fighting,” Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) consistently returns to the themes that the Scots-Irish who represent Jacksonian American and Appalachia [...]
Lincoln’s Electoral Map vs. Obama’s
To mark the 200th anniversary of President Lincoln’s birthday, I’d like to point to this fascinating map from the Washington Post. As you can see, President Obama won every state that Lincoln carried, but as Millsaps College professor Robert S. McElvaine notes, “the legacy of slavery and the Civil War continue to cast a heavy [...]
Morning Reading List – 11 Days to Go
TEM MUST-READ: A detailed account of why North Carolina is a now toss-up.
[SOUTHWEST] McCain slips among Hispanic voters. Not a good sign for him in New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada.
[SOUTH] African-American early turnout in the South is 6-10% above black voters’ share of the population.
[MAP] McCain boosts spending in Bush states, cuts it in [...]
Newsweek Fails on “Southern Discomfort” Story
Newsweek’s latest cover story “Southern Discomfort: A journey through a troubled region” is an utter failure at original reporting and fresh insight.
The goal of the article was to convey the South’s “discomfort” with Barack Obama, which according to author Christopher Dickey, whose father penned “Deliverance,” has nothing to do with the senator’s liberalism, but is [...]
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