On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, snit snat wrote:
> You know what would work? a 3-D map.
> http://www.esri.com/industries/elections/graphics/results2004_lg.jpg
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> http://www.bopnews.com/archives/002306.html#2306
These are a great start. But unfortunately they also show how hard this is to visualize. Because you can't see from these maps how cities in New York and California and Pennsylvania are blue cities surrounded by red hinterland, or how its the same story in Mississippi and Alabama and Georgia. So it doesn't really break the paradigm.
Maybe it just needs to be bigger?
Also it doesn't show just how damned empty those deserts and mountains and much of those praries are, since you can't get flatter than flat. Maybe we could use outlined white for counties that meet the old census definition of frontier, which was 6 persons or less per square mile. Or graduate the redness, so that you can see it fading out into the whiteness and nothingness.
But it's a start for thinking about it. Thanks!
Michael
