Sam Kinison reference. You are a gentleman and a scholar.
"We have deserts in America. We just don't fucking live in them!"
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Invariant of the day: In any square mile of the USA, there are 25 Republican voters, the rest of them either vote Democrat or not at all.
It doesn't work of course. Suffolk County, MA (Boston) has a partial pressure of about 1kGOP/mi^2^. Nevertheless, it's closer than you might expect considering how many square miles don't even have 25 human beings.
In my head I read that as "one kiloGOP per square mile"
Just a few hundred miliGOPs is enough to fuck up a city council.
We need to get the EPA on this. It’s pollution.
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This map is fascinating. Would be cool to have a mini legend for all those blue dots, as in what cities they are and why did people gather there.
The way they are so evenly situated, I think they are just putting a population-proportioned dot in the center of each county. In meant states, counties are pretty much equal sized squares with varying amounts of people in them.
Issue with this (because of first past the post) there are still a significant number of people voting the opposite way of who wins in their electorate, for the most part.
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Cartography is super cool.
Oh shit
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/30/opinion/election-results-maps.html
https://purplestatesofamerica.org/
Yall should read How to Lie with Maps.
So the NYT wants to tell us we're not as polarized as the maps may show?
Of course they do. Both Sides, you know. Other than that, the points about colors are well taken, it's just so on-brand for NYT to have the editorial POV that everything's normal, it's fine.
I don't know that there's a lot of sand in Kansas.
There's a whole lot of dumbass rednecks though.
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