raises hand quickly into the air I know. I know. Pick me. Pick me.

It should be the difference between per capita and per taxpayer since not all city residents are city taxpayers.

I'm referring to the color. It appears that the all the large areas (circle size, which I presume is total votes) are blue. It appears, just eyeballing it, that the top 30 'total votes' counties are all blue. Probably more, a lot more.

It looks like you have to go all the way down to Collins County TX to finally get a red circle.

The fact that it is such a stark contrast, with none of them being republicans, is quite interesting. The rule seems to be "if you have more than 500,000 voters, then you vote democrat".

on the low end, the small circles, seem to be fairly distributed between blue and red.

There's a general trend that denser places are more populated in total. San Bernardino, CA is an interesting exception of a low density place with a lot of total people.

Hmmmm. What an interesting correlation. Wonder why that is???

Get off the internet, grampa.

That looks quite a bit different from this chart published by Forbes which is "municipal debt per taxpayer". I assume that's the same metric but I may be wrong.

Duh…supports theory liberals are like rats in a cage…at some level of population, they start becoming cannibals. Humans were never meant for communities as large as even our smaller cities.

Sources:

Election: https://www.cookpolitical.com/2020-national-popular-vote-tracker

Education: https://www.statista.com/statistics/725335/us-population-that-held-advanced-degree-by-state/

Excel visualization.

Are you sure that’s Gameweek on the X axis, and not game played in? I’m just wondering why some lines stop before the end

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According to Wikipedia, Suffolk County went Republican by a 0.03% spread (a margin of 231 votes out of 773,287 total votes cast).

So I guess it’s red because the GOP got the most votes but the gap was effectively zero for this level of precision

it'd be interesting to see all the circles plotted by circle size (i.e voters). it looks overwhelmingly (in fact exclusively) large circle = blue. In fact, the biggest red circle (by eye) is Suffolk, which is 0%. Which brings up a point, why is it red?

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That's the thing I'm always trying to tell people: there aren't really red states and blue states - there are states that have more people living in cities and there are states that have more people living in the country. Even urban districts in Texas go Democrat..

I've been looking through the exceptions to the low density = Republican leaning rule:

1. Ziebach country, SD super poor and entirely within an Indian reservation

2. Blaine County, MT bellweather state, there's a tribal Native American college there.

3. Skagway, AK Big tourist town, no obvious reason it should vote Democrat.

4. San Juan Country, CO No obvious reason it should vote Democrat.

5. Grand County, UT Bellweather state and tourist area.

6. Richmond County AKA Staten Island Can't quite explain in terms of demographic variables why Staten Island goes GOP.

That post is why I left this comment! I think it’s a good example of a common problem.

Just came here from the recent post about most/least educated states to say the same thing. Something as simple as a legend is so easy to enforce yet there’s so many posts with ambiguous colors, numbers, lines, etc. it makes me want to leave the sub but I haven’t bc there’s some really good posts that are informative and well put together. I would love to see the mods hold this sub to a higher standard!

Tax expense of $200B? Wow they’re fucked

Wait a minute... Cities tend to vote Democratic?

Interesting. Population density over county geographical size seems to be an interesting axis. I wonder how that correlates with the presence/absence of large cities. Normally the density of population is significantly more dramatic with cities. I wonder if the underlying x-axis narrative can be remapped to “counties with big cities”.

Interesting find. Thank you for sharing.

The inflation did not go up 774%. The consumer prices went up 774% due to inflation.

The stats

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God: Fuck you in particular USA.

This is actually a really cool way to show survivorship bias.