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NorthImpossible8906 t1_jbkoibp wrote

it'd be interesting to see all the circles plotted by circle size (i.e voters). it looks overwhelmingly (in fact exclusively) large circle = blue. In fact, the biggest red circle (by eye) is Suffolk, which is 0%. Which brings up a point, why is it red?

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striped_frog t1_jbktkyi wrote

According to Wikipedia, Suffolk County went Republican by a 0.03% spread (a margin of 231 votes out of 773,287 total votes cast).

So I guess it’s red because the GOP got the most votes but the gap was effectively zero for this level of precision

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innergamedude OP t1_jbl011p wrote

There's a general trend that denser places are more populated in total. San Bernardino, CA is an interesting exception of a low density place with a lot of total people.

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NorthImpossible8906 t1_jbl18dt wrote

I'm referring to the color. It appears that the all the large areas (circle size, which I presume is total votes) are blue. It appears, just eyeballing it, that the top 30 'total votes' counties are all blue. Probably more, a lot more.

It looks like you have to go all the way down to Collins County TX to finally get a red circle.

The fact that it is such a stark contrast, with none of them being republicans, is quite interesting. The rule seems to be "if you have more than 500,000 voters, then you vote democrat".

on the low end, the small circles, seem to be fairly distributed between blue and red.

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innergamedude OP t1_jbl3bt7 wrote

Right and I'm just making the connection that this works because overall population of a country closely tracks with density anyway, so it's a slightly different observation of th same phenomenon.

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Urall5150 t1_jblvtdo wrote

San Berdoo County is massive. The Inland Empire portion is as densely populated as parts of LA, the High Desert has some sizeable cities, but the vast majority of it is empty desert.

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