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[topaz]

The current meme going around seems to be electoral maps. We've all seen the state-by-state electoral breakdown, but here are some of the more interesting versions I've seen:

At http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/vote2004/countymap.htm, a map of Democratic and Republican votes, broken down by county rather than by state:


At http://www.electoral-vote.com/carto/nov04c.html, a "cartogram," which is apparently a map scaled to population rather than area:


From http://www.boingboing.net. This map describes just the margin of victory. Each state is colored a shade of purple depending on how many Republican (red) or Democrat (blue) votes it got. This gives a much better idea of how mixed the vote was:


moominmolly and claudia_ each posted a purple cartogram, combining the last two ideas. I think they did this independently, but I'm not sure. claudia_ posted her version here:


And moominmolly's is here:


I think this one is my favorite. A purple map drawn by county rather than by state. From KieranHealy.org.


Kieran links to a really huge version of this one: 1547x1053, 400KB.

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[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

One can say that of a lot of urban neighbourhoods as well. I mean, if you want to see community cohesiveness, go to Chicago's Pilsen sometime or St. Louis' Hill. Both are at least as ethnically homogenous as most suburbs or small towns and the robustness of their local organisations overwhelms anything I experienced in the countryside. I'm sure they'd love to keep their taxes for their own use as well (Pilsen's 18th St. generates more sales tax revenues per square foot than any other shopping district in Chicago outside of the Mag Mile), but they simply aren't allowed. True, community organisations are in an all-out battle against the local TIF, but that's because they (rightly, in my opinion) suspect that the money collected by this will be diverted to gentrify University Village and other areas within the shadow of UIC.