Coloring the Map: Land Doesn't Vote - People Do

[PTWB]

For far too long we've allowed the Republicans to publish their nationwide maps showing them with vast swaths of land colored red and tiny islands of blue sprinkled about. We need to change that perception by presenting that data in a more visually accurate and appealing format.

Each county is represented by a dot that is sized to represent the number of people in that county and not the landmass of that county.







https://www.core77.com/posts/90771/A-Great-Example-of-Better-Data-Visualization-This-Voting-Map-GIF

[Merlot]

1. Thank you and to those who created this map.

It's a subtle form of brain washing to see the "red" map.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

2. The concepts of population density and distribution is difficult for some people to understand

Put aside the obvious places like New York City. Hudson County NJ is 47 square miles and has nearly 700,000 people. The State of Wyoming is roughly 2,083 times the size of Hudson County and has nearly 200,000 fewer people. To put that in perspective-if Wyoming had a similar population density, there would be somewhere in the neighborhood of 1.4 billion people living there. Elections are about people indeed, not colors on a map.