{"id":462416,"date":"2017-12-18T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=462416"},"modified":"2017-12-18T09:52:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T14:52:39","slug":"mapping-the-alabama-senate-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/12\/mapping-the-alabama-senate-election-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping the Alabama Senate Election Results"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MCI Maps (Matthew C. Isbell)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The results of last week’s special Alabama senate election have been crunched and mapped. Matthew Isbell looks at some of the factors<\/a> that contributed to Doug Jones’s upset win: education, race and voter turnout. Lots of county-by-county choropleth maps to mull over here. Meanwhile, the Washington Post<\/em> is not the only one to map a salient point<\/a>: Jones won the state but lost six out of seven congressional districts, thanks to the way those districts were drawn\u2014a function of race, majority-minority districting, and gerrymandering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The results of last week’s special Alabama senate election have been crunched and mapped. Matthew Isbell looks at some of the factors that contributed to Doug Jones’s upset win: education, race and voter turnout. Lots… 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":[778,1114,158],"class_list":["post-462416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-politics","tag-alabama","tag-u-s-senate","tag-usa","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5882,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/11\/mapping-the-results-of-australias-same-sex-marriage-referendum\/","url_meta":{"origin":462416,"position":0},"title":"Mapping the Results of Australia’s Same-Sex Marriage Referendum","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"15 November 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"When it comes to maps of the results of Australia's same-sex marriage referendum (or, to be more precise, postal survey), it's a mixed bag. 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