# An extremely detailed map of the 2016 election **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 27, 2018, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-extremely-detailed-map-of-the-2016-election/818656 "2018-07-27T03:14:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2018, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-extremely-detailed-map-of-the-2016-election/818656/61 "2018-07-29T12:13:48Z")
> [@DSYoungEsq](#): > > “Negro” is NOT pejorative. Never has been. It’s just gone out of fashion because it is too easily associated with the pejorative that sound like it. > > Unless you’d like to suggest that the United Negro College Fund is using a pejorative in its name? :smack: No, it’s not technically a pejorative, but it is, as you said, an old term that has fallen out of fashion. In racial contexts, that usually means the term is seen as at least somewhat racist when used today. (Historically important uses are, of course, grandfathered in.) I share the reaction of “Really?” It seems odd to me that someone in 2018 would not know that using “Negro” today would come off badly. It would be like someone referring to Asian people as “Oriental.” It inherently carries an additional, less savory connotation. One that would have been avoided by a widely known term “African American.” That’s not any sort of accusation, mind you. My reaction is actually not dissimilar to that expressed by your smilie. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2018, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-extremely-detailed-map-of-the-2016-election/818656/62 "2018-08-01T05:39:19Z")
Here’s another relevant map video: How different age groups. Interestingly, Trump overwhelmingly got the vote of everyone except for age 20-39, and the age 20-29ers were overwhemlingly for Hillary. Also, all minors (too young to vote) would have gone overwhelmingly for Trump. That’s the opposite of what I expected. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2018, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-extremely-detailed-map-of-the-2016-election/818656/63 "2018-08-01T06:55:25Z")
> [@Shagunathor](#): > > It is no surprise that in Wyoming about the only blue precincts are in the college town (Laramie), the place where Hollywood types go to retire (Jackson), and the Wind River Reservation. I have no ready explanation for the small blue precinct in Cheyenne. I moved from Wyoming (69% of my precinct for Trump) to western Washington (10% for Trump) a few months before the election. It was a strange experience not to be in the political minority after so many years. 'm wondering if the blue precinct in Cheyanne isn’t predominantly Hispanic. ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2018, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-extremely-detailed-map-of-the-2016-election/818656/64 "2018-08-01T07:29:03Z")
> [@chappachula](#): > > Still, I agree with you that in your post, it would have sounded awkward to write “Blue is white,Green is Black”. > So in this case, Caucasian and Afro-American are the preferable terms. Nobody ever says “Afro-American.” African-American, yeah. I hate the word “Caucasian” and still can’t really understand how a mountain range in Western Asia came to mean “people of predominantly European ancestry”, but I know that damn word isn’t going anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2018, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-extremely-detailed-map-of-the-2016-election/818656/65 "2018-08-01T10:27:45Z")
At any rate, for myself, I live in a 46-45 T\*\*\*\* precinct, with a few similarly close pink precincts adjacent, with a few similarly very light blue Hillary districts close by as well. I think it’s safe to say I don’t live in a bubble. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-extremely-detailed-map-of-the-2016-election/818656.md?page=3)