Red And Blue Us Map

Electoral maps weren t always red and blue states.

Red and blue us map. Here red represents the democrats and blue the republicans. On monday we featured a map from 2012 and asked you what you could learn from it. The cartographer must choose how many classes to use and how to break the data into those classes. A county level division between red and blue with contiguous territories for both.

The new york times. Scribner s statistical atlas of the united states published in 1883 detailed presidential voting patterns by county for prior elections. While there are various techniques. The map even looked a little like the 2012 electoral picture with a preponderance of blue through what we now regard as the democratic stronghold of the north east and red spilling across the republican south.

As the 2016 election cycle approached the electoral map had become pretty predictable. No this map won t do comments reader dicken schrader. Election maps often use a two class color scheme red and blue which results in a map that is easy to read but is highly generalized. Now we feature a map.

All but 10 states 1 1 plus one congressional district in nebraska had voted consistently democratic or republican for at least the prior four consecutive presidential elections. Blue or red states since 2000. The map depicted the 2016 election results county by county as a blanket of red marked with flecks of blue and peachy pink along the west coast and a thin snake of blue extending from the. The colorful distinction between major parties is a relatively recent phenomenon.

Some maps use more classes such as shades of red and blue to indicate the degree of election victory. Red and blue map 2016. These maps provide a more detailed picture but themselves have various problems associated with classification of data.