Tagged "election 2012"

theatlantic:

Red State, Blue City: How the Urban-Rural Divide is Splitting America

The new political divide is a stark division between cities and what remains of the countryside. Not just some cities and some rural areas, either — virtually every major city (100,000-plus population) in the United States of America has a different outlook from the less populous areas that are closest to it. The difference is no longer aboutwherepeople live, it’s abouthowpeople live: in spread-out, open, low-density privacy — or amid rough-and-tumble, in-your-face population density and diverse communities that enforce a lower-common denominator of tolerance among inhabitants.
The voting data suggest that people don’t make cities liberal — cities make people liberal.

Read more. [Image: Robert Vanderbai]

Graphic + politics + stats + narrative = of course I’m reblogging this.

Red State, Blue City: How the Urban-Rural Divide is Splitting America

The new political divide is a stark division between cities and what remains of the countryside. Not just some cities and some rural areas, either — virtually every major city (100,000-plus population) in the United States of America has a different outlook from the less populous areas that are closest to it. The difference is no longer aboutwherepeople live, it’s abouthowpeople live: in spread-out, open, low-density privacy — or amid rough-and-tumble, in-your-face population density and diverse communities that enforce a lower-common denominator of tolerance among inhabitants.

The voting data suggest that people don’t make cities liberal — cities make people liberal.

Read more. [Image: Robert Vanderbai]

Graphic + politics + stats + narrative = of course I’m reblogging this.

skepticalavenger:

Chris Howard: America really looks like this - I was looking at the amazing 2012 election maps created by Mark Newman (Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan, http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2012 ), and although there is a very interesting blended voting map (Most of the country is some shade of purple, a varied blend of Democrat blue and Republican red) what I really wanted was this blended map with a population density overlay. Because what really stands out is how red the nation seems to be when you do not take the voting population into account; when you do so many of those vast red mid-west blocks fade into pale pink and lavender (very low population).

So I created a new map using Mark’s blended voting map based on the actual numbers of votes for each party overlaid with population maps from Texas Tech University and other sources.

Here’s the result—what the American political voting distribution really looks like.

It would be impossible for me to NOT love this and NOT reblog this.

(via messily)

runswithpoodles:

tedr:

paxamericana: Here’s what the 2012 electoral map would have looked like if only white males had voted.

Yowza. Thank God for the rest of us (and those nice, liberal white dudes who are apparently outnumbered by creepy dudes who don’t understand math).

AAAH! Code Red indeed.

THIS.

jenjay:

“The America that allowed slaves DIED. The America that said a woman’s vote wasn’t as relevant and important and useful as a mans DIED. The America that legislated that two people of different races falling in love was an offensive abomination DIED. So today, another version of America is dying. The America we knew is terminal. It is not dead yet but the tides of change cannot be quelled or quieted or filibustered or bullied away. America is changing -– just as it always has, just as it was meant to.”

— Please read this entire amazing open letter to everyone predicting the imminent doom of America. Well effin’ said, Carina Kolodny. (via hypervocal)

tehvalerie:

ilovecharts:

Nate Silver probability map vs. Actual map

In Nate We Trust

(via lizlemon)

The president’s oration was almost a summation of his core belief: that against the odds, human beings can actually better ourselves, morally, ethically, materially, and we can do so more powerfully together than alone, and that nowhere exemplifies that endeavor more than America. It was Lincolnian in its cadences, and in some ways, was the final, impassioned, heart-felt rebuke to all those, including his opponent, who tried to portray him as somehow un-American. How deeply that must have cut. How emphatically did he rebut the charge. What he reminded me of was how deeply American he actually is—how this country’s experiment truly is in diversity as well as democracy. And his diversity is not some cringe-worthy 1990s variety. It is about being both white and black, both mid-Western and Hawaiian, both proudly American and yet also attuned to the opinion of mankind.

Andrew Sullivan (via thesmithian)

nedhepburn:

Empire State Building, right now.

Happiness is blue.

(via rachelinbrooklyn)

The story of this election

noraleah:

Women showed up to vote. They showed up early and they showed up strong.

And not only that — women *my age* showed up to vote today.

Our great grandmothers fought for the right to vote.

Our grandmothers fought for the right to work outside the home.

Our mothers fought for the right to be treated with respect.

Don’t pick a fight with us.

(via simplerightwords)

America!

Thank you thank you thank you

Each Ohio Voter Has a 1 in a Million Chance of Deciding the Election →

(via meredithbklyn)

Jenver