Showing posts with label purple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label purple. Show all posts

Sunday, February 5, 2023

Michigan Votes vs Population

 Where people live isn't equally distributed across the state (duh!). When displaying election results (or other data), a common strategy is to color areas by how the inhabitants voted. This communicates as much information as it can elide. Here are a few different maps that all correctly display the results of the 2022 governor's election, but tell a very different story. Here's to being a red/blue/purple state!


map showing red vs blue party wins; the left shows it by county and the right by population.



animated map of michigan changing from a population map to a county map