Trump 68%, Clinton 27%, which was a big gain for the GOP, as Romney only got 55%. Which was really the story of the election, I guess. White midwesterners, outside of the urban areas and fancier suburbs, flocking to Trump.
I’m in a fairly white town that is Republican mostly but NJ Republican, (read moderate). The education level is very high. Trump won with 56% but I’ve seen Republicans take 75% so it was not a big win for Trump.
Interesting you can trace the Route 95 Corridor from Boston to DC so clearly in Blue with so much Red around it. It really did end up an Urban vs Rural election didn’t it.
I wonder if you can get the data the NY Times used.
I’m not sure where you get that from. There’s a whole lot more poor people concentrated in the urban areas than spread across the Great Plains. Anyway, income level breakdowns are easy to find without making guesses based on the map.
Is the map incomplete? Northern Maine, and some parts east of Bangor, are empty. I realize that northern Maine is extremely rural, but it isn’t completely devoid of people, is it?
(Yes, it does take some seconds to load)
Missed the edit window: Wiki’s map of Maine’s congressional districts since 2013 shows voting districts up in those empty spots on the NY Times map.
I already knew this, but I guess I need to change my username to “Bubble Boy”. 86th percentile for HRC.
Trythis.
Cool, thanks. Rural, white Clinton voters appear in a few places: a ring around Madison, Wisconsin; much of Vermont; coastal Maine; the resort mountain area of Colorado; and parts of the Pacific states (northern coastal California and the Sierra foothills…).
*Also western Massachussetts.
Other rural areas that favored Clinton are majority Native American or Black.
I checked out my home town in southern MN, and it is red, but there is a blue precinct just north of it that is the Dakota Sioux reservation.
And when the court hands down its “One acre, one vote” decision we’re in trouble.
82% Clinton and 10% Trump in my district.
There are several places in the country where you could drive directly north to south (with at most a slight jog) and never leave a Trump precinct.
The closest you could come west to east would be to start in southern Oregon just north of Medford, drop down through Illinois, twist through Ohio and emerge in Delaware.
By careful driving you could stay Clinton if you started at the Canadian border in Vermont and make it as far south as Wilmington, DE, except for a Trump moat around New Milford, CT.
Pretty much what I expected around here. Low population density and snobbery resulted in red districts. The interesting part is how close the vote was in many districts.
I’m sitting in a business district at the moment. It went 29 to 26 for Trump. That’s 29 to 26 votes!
It also appears that three people in this precinct didn’t vote for either.
Thanks for the link. After looking at the San Francisco Bay Area and Manhattan and other rich areas, I was thinking that the very rural precincts have lower incomes, and most of those are red.
I checked out a number of areas, and the thing that interested me the most is that there are far more districts that went VERY high for Clinton - over 95 percent her way - than went over 95 percent for Trump. Areas in and around San Francisco, LA, DC, NY, etc. Sure, these areas are known to be liberal, but there are districts that went 99 percent Clinton. Admittedly, I didn’t check every precinct in the country, but even looking in ND, SD, TX, etc., I didn’t find very many places that went 97%+ for Trump, but lots that went 97%+ for Clinton. And many of those 97%+ Clinton places have a lot of people.
This adds credence to the “Bubble” theory that more liberals live in liberal bubbles than conservatives who live in conservative bubbles. If you live in a place that voted 99 percent Clinton, with local and national media that are liberal, there’s your bubble.
And to cut off an expected response: Yes, it’s Trump we’re talking about. A miserable person and lousy candidate. But he was running against Clinton, who is equally as miserable and lousy. And for the record, I didn’t vote for either of them. I am one of the “purity ponies” mentioned above. I couldn’t bring myself to vote for either of these cretins.
This might work:
If you want to skip some of the github rigmarole, I’ll email you a tarball of those files.
The most depressing thing about this is that in my zip code, which has a population of around 80,000, only a little over 600 people voted for either candidate.