The XKCD comic has put together a terrific map that explains American voting demographics. The bottom line is that "red" states typically have very few people in them -- a fact illustrated in the XKCD comic by the use of white space. Click to enlarge.
Would be fun to test your hypothesis using a GIS. My guess is that it works in the prarie and some mountain states but fails in the deep South. "Explains" is a strong assertion, but that's good, IMO. Strong hypotheses are good material to test.
ReplyDeleteThe work on this seems to have been done.
ReplyDelete"If You Live Near Other People, You're Probably a Democrat. If Your Neighbors Are Distant, Republican" - CityLab at https://www.citylab.com/equity/2013/09/if-you-live-near-other-people-youre-probably-democrat-if-your-neighbors-are-distant-republican/7047/
"The Real Republican Adversary? Population Density — Dave Troy: Fueled By Randomness" at http://davetroy.com/posts/the-real-republican-adversary-population-density
Correction: Nice! but I'd still love to see map of where relatively high population density still ends out Republican, and I'll bet the results group south of the Mason-Dixon Line.
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