Recent surveys reveal that during the last two decade , an increase turn of Americans have chosen to slue Right or pass on in their political orientation — with almost no center terra firma . That trend becomes particularly apparent when looking at U.S. election resultant , county - by - county , since 1960 .
The red - blue function that we ’re wonted to get wind during presidential election often omit the nuance of how political views have step by step change within land . The Washington Post attempts toremedythat with a visualization ( above ) showing how every county in the United States has vote versus the national average during the preceding half C :
The redder the loss , the more Republican the county voted than the rest of the country . The bluer the blue , the more popular it voted . In 1960 , 1968 and 1992 , there are some counties that were a flat red . They voted against the Democratic winner and for third - party candidates . ( Harry Byrd , George Wallace and Ross Perot , respectively . )
By far the most interesting matter about this aliveness is how the denseness of the coloring increases . In the former 1980s , most counties were fairly bipartisan . By 2000 , there are a band of very unassailable red county — a trend that increases . Keep an eye , too , on Appalachia . Until 2008 , it ’s a wan blue . Then it rapidly grows red .
One benefit of this approaching is that it countenance us to gauge the stride and extent to which state are budge in their political orientations . The map , for case , suggest that wayward to established sapience Georgia is unconvincing to turn blue any time shortly . But keep an eye on Mississippi . In 1960 , most Mississippi counties did n’t plight electors to the Democrats . In 1964 , the land powerfully favored Republican Barry Goldwater . By comparison , the margin of foeman to President Obama versus Mitt Romney pale . The state vote much more Democratically in 2012 than in 1964 — even though it went for the Republican .
you may take a closemouthed look at the datum , using interactional single-valued function at theWashington Post web site .
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