The Geography Of Donald Trump's Supporters

The New York Times has conducted about interesting analysis of the the geospatial spread of Donald Trump's support. In a large surprise to well-nigh nobody it shows that Trump is performing best alongside less affluent in addition to less educated voters inwards the south.

Donald Trump’s Strongest Supporters includes an interactive choropleth map showing Republican voters estimated to back upwardly Trump at district level. If you lot hover over a district on the map you lot tin thought the pct of Trump's estimated support.


The map shows that Donald Trump has a large marking of back upwardly inwards the eastern states, "stretching from the Gulf Coast, upwardly the spine of the Appalachian Mountains, to upstate New York". The Times article includes a comparing of the Trump supporters map with a map of meshing searches for racial slurs in addition to racist jokes.

There does appear to hold upwardly a real rigid correlation betwixt a map of where people brand racially charged meshing searches in addition to a map of Trump's supporters. Not that anyone is calling Trump's supporters racist.