The map above gives a preliminary view how white voters voted in the 2016 US presidential election on a county by county basis. The counties in blue voted for Hillary Clinton and the ones in red voted for Donald Trump.
Reagente explains that:
For those wondering how I created this map, I started with 2012 version of this map (which utilized data from the NYT Upshot, David Leip’s US Election Atlas, Dave’s Redistricting App, and the American Community Survey via the Census Bureau) to calculate this for 2012 in detail.
From that starting point, I used the preliminary results (which I compared against 2012) and exit polls (when available, I made educated guesses in states where they weren’t) to determine how much demographic groups in 2016 shifted from ’12.
I decided to forego calculating margins until more information about this election is available, but this map should broadly speaking be accurate.
However, it should be noted that this map can be a little misleading for a few reasons. First, there’s no differentiation on the margin of victory. Second, it does not take into account population size. The counties in blue, generally speaking, have a lot more people living in them (including white voters).
These two factors mean that Trump’s victory among white voters, may appear slightly overstated by the map. Nevertheless, it’s still interesting to see the extreme geographical concentration of Clinton’s votes compared to Trump’s.
For other 2016 US election maps see:
- If “Did Not Vote” Had Been A Candidate In The 2016 US Presidential Election, It Would Have Won By a Landslide
- 2016 US Presidential Election Map By County & Vote Share
- Counties That Changed Party In The 2016 US Presidential Election VS 2012
- 2016 US Presidential Electoral Map If Only [X] Voted
To learn more about this phenomenon the following books may be of interest:
- White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
- Angry White Male: How the Donald Trump Phenomenon is Changing America—and What We Can All Do to Save the Middle Class
- Presidential Lottery: The Reckless Gamble in Our Electoral System
- The End of White Christian America
- Unprecedented: The Election That Changed Everything
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whomod says
“Identity” politics. Not the payoff that we expected….
torstenadair says
You already stated the two biggest problems: cartograms and population.
Here’s a more honest map:
http://www.viewsoftheworld.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/USelection2016Cartogram.png
An even more honest map will trend towards shades of purple.
A bigger question: how did the original mapmaker crunch the demographic data?
Did he have access to voter registrations, and note each individual who voted?
I’m Caucasian, living in an Indigo voting district, voting as a Democrat. how does he note my vote?
Is Latino “white”?
How do you count someone like Obama, who is half-black, half-white?
What about that blue swath on Lake Superior? St. Louis county, MN is 94% white.
wormcast says
yes. this map perfectly captures the dysfunction that is the US electoral system
ibutcherii says
How
can today’s White Christian ministers who profess to be the guiding
spiritual light for their parishioners knowingly attack or remain silent
to the truth of the horrendous legacy, in regard to the injustices of
slavery in America’s past history?
Imagine the poor
ignorant and racist in America are supporting the Wealthy and the
Republicans, “Cutting off their nose to spite their face.”
Christians
who still hold on to the old prejudices of the past are making a
mockery of the death of Christ and His sacrifice, a Dream Deferred.
Jeff L Ballinger says
FYI, this map has marked red San Luis Obispo County, Calif., which voted 2-1 for Clinton. While not all residents are white, about 80% of them are so this county should show blue on your map.
JJ5306 says
This map is total BULLSHIT as is this entire article. Haven’t you heard the ELECTION WAS BOUGHT AND PAID FOR AND THIS BULLSHIT YOU’RE PERPETRATING DID NOT OCCUR?
mark hamilton says
Be that as it may, but by all accounts, Hillary Clinton is a notorious murderer and should be in prison!
Dawn says
You should be in a mental hospital.
Billie Mudry Spaight says
But we have so many hate groups in NYC…