Comments on: Neighboroo – Political affiliation

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:41:00 +0000

It’s not about districts–the map shows party strength by county. If there are several adjacent counties with the same party strength, they’ll be the same color, and run together.

And as an aside, congressional districts all contain roughly the same amount of people.

By: RyanB

RyanB — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 08:07:34 +0000

I want to know where their data is from. Dan, are you saying the middle of the country has more districts? Because the only state that has a large amount of districts in the middle is Texas, all the others have less than 10 per state.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 02:00:44 +0000

I am actually going to disagree with Derek. Time Magazine recently published an article that showed a political map very similar to the above map. Frankly I believe it is accurate, and you have to remember the middle of the country is not too populated, and smaller districts lean conservative.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 01:59:59 +0000

The map seems to be right.
It looks strange at first, but as the first two commenters explained, it leaves out population. So it isn’t as “bad” as some may think.
Sorry emory. Send us a postcard?

By: emory

emory — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 01:44:52 +0000

if this map is right, I”m moving to Canada. There’s no way I’m THAT disconnected with my fellow Americans :(

By: Neighboroo

Neighboroo — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:06:58 +0000

Yes, it may be misleading at first, but the dark red areas have very sparse population. We are certainly not partisan in anyway.

Perhaps, we can make it more clear by adding population figure in the information bubble. Would that help?

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:18:29 +0000

it looks like it is divided into state districts, which leads me to believe it is on the verge of being correct — the population is very unevenly distributed, and the map fails to show the population of each area in question. when you take in to account that largely populated blue areas like new york, its easier to see how the map could be accurate.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:16:06 +0000

Actually, it’s about right. Look at the large urban areas–they’re predominantly Democrat in practice as well as on the map. The red looks disproportionately large because more rural, less populated areas trend republican.