[lbo-talk] Sean Wilentz: Blue Cities vs. Red Surrounds

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Thu Nov 11 22:11:08 PST 2004


On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, John Adams wrote:


> Here's a county-by-county map that does the blue/red thing:
> http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/countymaplarge.png

The problem in ideological/graphical terms is that the red/blue county map replicates the land-area illusion even worse than the state by state version. I'm wondering if there is somewhere to weight this by population density so that the real importance of each area is made clear without making the map unrecognizable.

Michael



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