{"id":2470,"date":"2009-08-12T02:13:18","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T10:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=2470"},"modified":"2009-08-12T02:17:19","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T10:17:19","slug":"regional-differences-in-voting-for-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/regional-differences-in-voting-for-barack-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional differences in voting for Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing with quantitative data and mapping recently (numbers &#038; maps are two things I&#8217;m rather preoccupied with). I was curious as to geographic variation in support for Barack Obama as a function of the % of a county that was white, and how expectations were shifted based on geography. In plainer language, some very white regions such as Vermont were much more pro-Obama than whites nationally, while others, such as the Upland South, were more anti-Obama. Below the fold is a map where I shaded pro-Obama counties (but the criterion above) blue and anti-Obama counties red. A more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/where-whiter-folk-are.php\">detailed methodology can be found at Gene Expression<\/a> (along with more maps and a scatterplot).<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<b>Click map for &#8220;non-funhouse&#8221; version<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/trendnamp1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/trendnamp1.png\" alt=\"trendnamp1\" title=\"trendnamp1\" width=\"1276\" height=\"695\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/trendnamp1.png 1276w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/trendnamp1-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/trendnamp1-1024x557.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1276px) 100vw, 1276px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing with quantitative data and mapping recently (numbers &#038; maps are two things I&#8217;m rather preoccupied with). I was curious as to geographic variation in support for Barack Obama as a function of the % of a county &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/regional-differences-in-voting-for-barack-obama\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2475,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions\/2475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}