Map Monday: Voting in America
Tomorrow is election day. To celebrate, I want to highlight the University of Richmond (Go Spiders!) and their Digital Scholarship Lab who have a very cool online exhibition of electoral statistical maps on their website. (warning: auto-playing video)
Personally, I love seeing data presented in new ways. As a history major and a bit of a cartographic nerd, these time-lapse maps represent the ultimate in teaching tools. Things I’ve learned by putzing around this site:
- The populist party had a surprisingly heterogeneous geographic appeal.
- African-American populations haven’t really left the south — and there’s still a lot of empty space out there.
Psyched to make your voice heard? Find out where you need to go to cast your vote tomorrow using Google Maps.
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