{"id":1789223,"date":"2020-09-08T09:55:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T13:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1789223"},"modified":"2020-09-08T09:55:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T13:55:29","slug":"red-and-blue-vs-gray-and-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/09\/red-and-blue-vs-gray-and-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Red and Blue vs. Gray and Green"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New York Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The New York Times<\/em> uses the colours in aerial images as a proxy for political leanings<\/a>: rather than red-and-blue electoral maps, the political landscape, Tim Wallace and Krishna Karra argue, is more green and gray.<\/p>\n

The pattern we observe here is consistent with the urban-rural divide we\u2019re accustomed to seeing on traditional maps of election results. What spans the divide\u2014the suburbs represented by transition colors\u2014can be crucial to winning elections. […] At each extreme of the political spectrum, the most Democratic areas tend to be heavily developed, while the most Republican areas are a more varied mix: not only suburbs, but farms and forests, as well as lands dominated by rock, sand or clay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is a generalization, to be sure, but so are most political maps, and the notion that urban areas tend to vote Democratic while rural areas tend to vote Republican isn\u2019t what I\u2019d call a revelation<\/em>. Still.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Times uses the colours in aerial images as a proxy for political leanings: rather than red-and-blue electoral maps, the political landscape, Tim Wallace and Krishna Karra argue, is more green and gray.… 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":[713,140,177,158],"class_list":["post-1789223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-politics","tag-2016-us-elections","tag-new-york-times","tag-satellite-imagery","tag-usa","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3400,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/11\/the-new-york-times-maps-the-2016-u-s-presidential-election\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789223,"position":0},"title":"The New York Times Maps the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"16 November 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"The\u00a0New York Times has a first-rate graphics department, and they've come up with some stunning ways to depict the 2016 U.S. presidential election results. They updated their maps of so-called \"landslide counties\" (see previous entry), which was straightforward enough. Their feature on how Trump reshaped the election map, with arrows\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics"","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"2016-election-nyt-two-americas","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-election-nyt-two-americas-1024x326.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-election-nyt-two-americas-1024x326.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-election-nyt-two-americas-1024x326.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-election-nyt-two-americas-1024x326.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3213,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/11\/more-election-cartography-primers\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789223,"position":1},"title":"More Election Cartography Primers","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"1 November 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Today, print subscribers to the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0were treated to a fold-out map showing a\u00a0choropleth map of the 2012 election results at the ZIP code level (above). \"The map is part of a special election section that aims to help explain the political geography of the United States \u2014 identifying where\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Cartography"","block_context":{"text":"Cartography","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/cartography\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"nyt-foldout-map","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/nyt-foldout-map-1024x430.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/nyt-foldout-map-1024x430.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/nyt-foldout-map-1024x430.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/nyt-foldout-map-1024x430.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3321,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/11\/a-map-of-when-the-polls-close-tomorrow\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789223,"position":2},"title":"A Map of When the Polls Close Tomorrow","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"7 November 2016","format":"image","excerpt":"Tomorrow is Election Day in the United States. The liberal political blog Daily Kos has produced the above map of poll closing times; I presume it's accurate. Update: The New York Times also has maps of poll closing times.","rel":"","context":"In "Politics"","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"polls-close-2016","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/polls-close-2016.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/polls-close-2016.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/polls-close-2016.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/polls-close-2016.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1160,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/03\/the-new-york-times-maps-the-u-s-presidential-primaries\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789223,"position":3},"title":"The New York Times Maps the U.S. Presidential Primaries","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"9 March 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"The\u00a0New York Times\u00a0graphics department invariably does first-rate work, and their interactive maps of the U.S. presidential primary and caucus results are no exception. 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I particularly like how the interactive map toggles from a standard choropleth map to maps that better account for population density, show the size of each candidate's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics"","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/nyt-election-va-2017-1024x559.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/nyt-election-va-2017-1024x559.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/nyt-election-va-2017-1024x559.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/nyt-election-va-2017-1024x559.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3353,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/11\/mapping-the-electorate\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789223,"position":5},"title":"Mapping the Electorate","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"8 November 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"As we approach the first election results of the evening, here are a few maps\u00a0of the electorate that is doing the voting tonight. 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