Red Blue Map Of Usa
A map showing red states blue states and swing states as of the 2016 election.
Red blue map of usa. A changing electoral map. Blue america would be roughly half the size of red america but have almost double the population. Robert vanderbei at princeton university made the first purple america map after the 2000 presidential election. Now we feature a map.
This self sorting by political ideology is why so many people were shocked. The terms red state and blue state have been in familiar lexicon since the 2000 us presidential election. If a state is not a red state or a blue state it might be a swing state. While the blue states represented a comparatively small geographic area they contained large populations which ended up making president bush s national level of support slimmer than the red blue map would seem to indicate.
Blue or red states since 2000. 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. That s changed in recent years as polarization has increased resulting in red and blue strongholds with bigger victory margins. It attempts to reflect the margin of victory in each county by coloring each with a shade between true blue and true red.
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. In recent modern elections there have been a dozen or more truly competitive battlegrounds which could result in many various paths to 270 electoral votes. If you re like most americans you don t live around or socialize with people with whom you disagree with politically. For the gop this represented 179 electoral votes.
For instance despite the narrow. Red and blue map 2016. The new york times. Various different maps such as ones which coded states based on the strength of their support for one candidate or another ones which gave results based on county or ones which displayed states according to the size of their population were proposed as.
On monday we featured a map from 2012 and asked you what you could learn from it.