{"id":1787227,"date":"2019-04-02T18:29:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T22:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1787227"},"modified":"2019-04-02T18:29:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T22:29:40","slug":"the-geography-of-partisan-prejudice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/04\/the-geography-of-partisan-prejudice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Geography of Partisan Prejudice"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Atlantic<\/em> maps political polarization in America<\/a>. “The result was surprising in several ways. First, while virtually all Americans have been exposed to hyper-partisan politicians, social-media echo chambers, and clickbait headlines, we found significant variations in Americans\u2019 political ill will from place to place, regardless of party.” Includes an interactive map with county-level data based on polling and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Atlantic maps political polarization in America. “The result was surprising in several ways. First, while virtually all Americans have been exposed to hyper-partisan politicians, social-media echo chambers, and clickbait headlines, we found significant variations… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[330],"tags":[1331,158],"class_list":["post-1787227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-politics","tag-the-atlantic","tag-usa","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1790362,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/03\/mapping-partisan-sorting-in-america\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787227,"position":0},"title":"Mapping Partisan Sorting in America","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"18 March 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"The New York Times maps partisan sorting in America\u2014the tendency for voters to self-select into areas where people think and vote the same way they do\u2014down to the neighbourhood level. The maps above\u2014and throughout this article\u2014show their estimates of partisanship down to the individual voter, colored by the researchers\u2019 best\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics"","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Partisanship in Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Los Angeles and New York (New York Times)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/nytimes-partisan-sorting-938x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/nytimes-partisan-sorting-938x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/nytimes-partisan-sorting-938x1024.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2208,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/06\/there-is-more-to-gerrymandering-than-ugly-shapes\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787227,"position":1},"title":"‘There Is More to Gerrymandering Than Ugly Shapes’","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"13 June 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"On the liberal political blog Daily Kos, Stephen Wolf argues that it takes more than a weirdly shaped electoral district to make a gerrymander: Land does not vote and\u00a0we can\u2019t judge gerrymanders simply based on geometry. Districts aren\u2019t just abstract shapes on a map, but collections of actual people and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics"","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1440399,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/01\/north-carolinas-gerrymandered-congressional-district-map-ruled-unconstitutional\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787227,"position":2},"title":"North Carolina’s Gerrymandered Congressional District Map Ruled Unconstitutional","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"10 January 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"North Carolina's congressional district map has been ruled unconstitutional by a panel of federal judges, the\u00a0New York Times reports. Significantly, it's because the map represented a\u00a0partisan gerrymander, engineered to ensure a Republican stranglehold on North Carolina's congressional delegation, rather than a\u00a0racial gerrymander. 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Check out this\u00a0New York Times article on the political consultants who do the redrawing; it focuses on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics"","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1789539,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/10\/mapping-an-atlantic-world-circa-1500\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787227,"position":4},"title":"Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"12 October 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"Out tomorrow from Johns Hopkins University Press, Alida C. Metcalf\u2019s\u00a0Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500 explores how sixteenth-century European maps conceptualized a new, Atlantic-centred world. From the publisher: \u201cMetcalf explains why Renaissance cosmographers first incorporated sailing charts into their maps and began to reject classical models for mapping the world.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antique Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/mappping-an-atlantic-world-200x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1067,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/03\/the-atlantic-on-tom-harrison\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787227,"position":5},"title":"The Atlantic on Tom Harrison","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"1 March 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"The Atlantic interviews Tom Harrison,\u00a0an independent cartographer based in San Rafael, California who produces maps of California parks and wilderness areas for hikers and mountain bikers, about his individualistic mapmaking process. 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