Not mine, but:

>Data and Tools The 2020 county-level election data is downloaded from the New York Times county election data API and processed using a python script. Population data used is for 2018.

So I guess that's how you get the data.

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.

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.

Get off the internet, grampa.

That's the thing I'm always trying to tell people: there aren't really red states and blue states - there are states that have more people living in cities and there are states that have more people living in the country. Even urban districts in Texas go Democrat..

I've been looking through the exceptions to the low density = Republican leaning rule:

1. Ziebach country, SD super poor and entirely within an Indian reservation

2. Blaine County, MT bellweather state, there's a tribal Native American college there.

3. Skagway, AK Big tourist town, no obvious reason it should vote Democrat.

4. San Juan Country, CO No obvious reason it should vote Democrat.

5. Grand County, UT Bellweather state and tourist area.

6. Richmond County AKA Staten Island Can't quite explain in terms of demographic variables why Staten Island goes GOP.

There's a linked youtube video that shows the process. Also, that one of the architects of the move was Kurt Vonngut, Sr, the father of author Kurt Vonnegut.

Jesus, that's unfortunate

Not the Mah'ket Basket on Boston road!

Since, I posted below the results of study that actually did a confounder controlled comparison, here it is again:

>Colorado’s pay transparency law, which went into effect Jan. 1, 2021, resulted in a 1.5% boost in the labor force participation rate compared to Utah, a neighboring state without such a law, according to an analysis by research hub Recruitonomics.

>In the same period, however, Colorado job postings on Indeed fell comparatively more than in Utah by a margin of 8.2%, the study found.

>“Salary transparency laws add another step in the process to post a job; as well as repel recruiters unwilling to divulge pay ranges,” Recruitonomics said.

>Recruitonomics noted the study is limited, but used Utah as a comparison due to the state’s similar demographics and economic characteristics.

Sauce.

Yeah, that's a general finding for most business/commercial issues with respect to most worker or consumer protections: it's too easy to leave the state and set up shop across the state lines. This is really a federal-level issue, since this represents a coordination problem. People can make the same argument about the federal level, but the reality is it's much harder to leave the country to conduct business than to leave the state.

After the rooster crows, the sun rises. Cum hoc ergo propter hoc. E.g. states having abortion bans also saw their wages rise.

However,

>Colorado’s pay transparency law, which went into effect Jan. 1, 2021, resulted in a 1.5% boost in the labor force participation rate compared to Utah, a neighboring state without such a law, according to an analysis by research hub Recruitonomics.

>In the same period, however, Colorado job postings on Indeed fell comparatively more than in Utah by a margin of 8.2%, the study found.

>“Salary transparency laws add another step in the process to post a job; as well as repel recruiters unwilling to divulge pay ranges,” Recruitonomics said.

>Recruitonomics noted the study is limited, but used Utah as a comparison due to the state’s similar demographics and economic characteristics.

Sauce.

Oooh, I can solve this differential equation!

The skyscraper effect:

How much validity it has is debatable.

Also, we shouldn't really build tall skyscrapers if reasoning on environmental or economic factors.

This. "French as a language" doesn't really mean anything in a strict sense. You had a whole continuum of dialects and the powerful interests in the national government declared one of them the "real thing" and all others basically Kirkland-brand French. This is actually the case for basically any Old World country with a nationalized language. The notion that "German" is one language is laughable.