The election map like you've never seen it
- TAGS:cartography, election, politics
- IT TOPICS:Government & Regulation
Tired of looking at the same election maps? Mark Newman, with the Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan, has parsed out yesterday's results in a way that reveals much about how the nation voted -and perhaps what it will take to govern.
As it turns out, the U.S. is not a combination of red states and blue states, but different shades of purple.
In a progression of maps that start with a traditional red-state/blue/state election map, Newman reveals the shades of truth that hide behind the basic numbers.Â
How close was the voting in each state? When the map is viewed proportionally to each state's population (as a cartogram), how does the result look? What if we look county by county? And finally, what were the percentage of votes cast in each county?
As the final map in the series shows, the country is not as black and white as election strategists would have us believe.
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