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Another interesting map
Nov. 5th, 2008 11:37 pmVia Atrios.
If you go to this page at the NY Times and run the flash map, there's a set of buttons on the left side--State Winners, County Bubbles, County Leaders, and Voting Shifts. This last one is the most interesting--it shows how the 2008 voting compared, county-by-county, to the previous four elections.
There's a coherent band of counties--not states, counties--that runs down the southern Appalachians, across Tennessee and Arkansas, reaching west into eastern Oklahoma and dipping down into western Louisiana--which constitutes basically all of the counties which were significantly more "red" in 2008 than in 2004. (There are a couple of other smaller patches--Arizona, eastern Massachusetts, northern Gulf Coast Florida--but the Appalachia/Ozarks band is really pronounced.) Even in the Deep South, once you get out of the mountains, most of the counties were noticeably "bluer" in 2008 than in 2004.
So, that's one small thing the pundits were right about--Obama had trouble with the hillbillies.
If you go to this page at the NY Times and run the flash map, there's a set of buttons on the left side--State Winners, County Bubbles, County Leaders, and Voting Shifts. This last one is the most interesting--it shows how the 2008 voting compared, county-by-county, to the previous four elections.
There's a coherent band of counties--not states, counties--that runs down the southern Appalachians, across Tennessee and Arkansas, reaching west into eastern Oklahoma and dipping down into western Louisiana--which constitutes basically all of the counties which were significantly more "red" in 2008 than in 2004. (There are a couple of other smaller patches--Arizona, eastern Massachusetts, northern Gulf Coast Florida--but the Appalachia/Ozarks band is really pronounced.) Even in the Deep South, once you get out of the mountains, most of the counties were noticeably "bluer" in 2008 than in 2004.
So, that's one small thing the pundits were right about--Obama had trouble with the hillbillies.
