maps showing results by county for all the presidential elections going back to 1860 (!)
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Amazing how quickly those southern states have flipped from the Democratic "Solid South" to the Republican strongholds of Nixon's Southern Strategy.
On a related note, here's a complete national map of the African-American population density, which I also found really striking. I hadn't realized just how much of the US black population was concentrated in the South. Look at the West, and how empty it looks, even in the more urban areas.
This is not a map of total black population, it is a map of the percentage of each county that is black. I am sure there are more African-Americans in LA county than almost any county in the whole South, but there are a huge number of non-black people there as well, so blacks are not a high percentage and LA does not show up red. But if you had a map of just total numbers of AA people, it would be more heavily weighted to the cities.
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Heaven. I am in heaven. Thanks!
Amazing how quickly those southern states have flipped from the Democratic "Solid South" to the Republican strongholds of Nixon's Southern Strategy.
On a related note, here's a complete national map of the African-American population density, which I also found really striking. I hadn't realized just how much of the US black population was concentrated in the South. Look at the West, and how empty it looks, even in the more urban areas.
This is not a map of total black population, it is a map of the percentage of each county that is black. I am sure there are more African-Americans in LA county than almost any county in the whole South, but there are a huge number of non-black people there as well, so blacks are not a high percentage and LA does not show up red. But if you had a map of just total numbers of AA people, it would be more heavily weighted to the cities.