The Route Map To The White House

Dustin Cable of the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service has combined a point map of votes cast inwards the 2008 Presidential Election alongside a point map of 2010 census information showing the geographical distribution of race together with ethnicity inwards the United States. The map has been created to aid visualize around of the nefarious ways inwards which current redistricting practices work.

The Congressional Dot Map allows yous to take away compare the racial distribution inside congressional districts alongside Democratic together with Republican votes cast inwards the district. In the accompanying weblog post Dustin explains how race together with ethnicity together with by election information is ofttimes used during redistricting to selection together with select the form of voters inwards the congressional district. The weblog post provides examples from the map to present how around of the well-nigh bizarre congressional districts convey been designed inwards social club to pack every bit many types of detail voters together with ethnicity inwards i area.

The map tin sack too move used to run across whether detail ethnic groups tend to vote for i political party or another. For instance inwards numerous polls the bulk of Hispanics convey identified every bit Democratic voters. The Congressional Dot Map seems to back upward these polls. If yous zoom inwards on areas alongside a large Hispanic population together with and hence assay the Presidential Election information yous tin sack run across that inwards well-nigh largely Hispanic areas well-nigh people look to convey voted for the Democrats.

This may explicate why Donald Trump latterly tweeted "I dear Hispanics!". He straightaway seems to realize that he mightiness take away around of the 27.3 1000000 Latino voters to vote for him inwards the upcoming Presidential election.