{"id":484,"date":"2004-11-06T11:56:57","date_gmt":"2004-11-06T18:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/red-blue-and-purple-states-and-counties\/"},"modified":"2004-11-06T11:56:57","modified_gmt":"2004-11-06T18:56:57","slug":"red-blue-and-purple-states-and-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/red-blue-and-purple-states-and-counties\/","title":{"rendered":"Red, Blue and Purple States and Counties"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blended Results By State
\n\"Dems
Purple-USA.jpg (JPEG Image, 616×483 pixels)<\/a><\/p>\n

By County
\nElection 2004 Results<\/a><\/p>\n

Using County-by-County election return data from USA Today together with County boundary data from the US Census’ Tiger database we produced the following graphic depicting the results. Of course, blue is for the democrats, red is for the republicans, and green is for all other. Each county’s color is a mix of these three color components in proportion to the results for that county.<\/p>\n

The whole “red state” view serves the Republicans and the Media and dumbs down the facts. Talking about purple states doesn’t exactly fix the matter, but at least it shows more of the truth — Dems and Reps live everywhere; thank god we’re integrated.<\/p>\n

The link below leads to a very different kind of map, a cartogram, which I find harder to digest. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Geomblog: The ‘Purple Haze’, revisited.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blended Results By State Purple-USA.jpg (JPEG Image, 616×483 pixels) By County Election 2004 Results Using County-by-County election return data from USA Today together with County boundary data from the US Census’ Tiger database we produced the following graphic depicting the results. Of course, blue is for the democrats, red is for the republicans, and green … Continue reading Red, Blue and Purple States and Counties<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}