Princeton Election Consortium

A first draft of electoral history

Race and voting

November 25th, 2008, 8:23am by Sam Wang


Courtesy of reader FZ, an excellent map at the NYT. By hitting “voting shifts” you get a mapped county version of shifts not only comapred with 2004, but also earlier years. He also notes analysis by Chicago (formerly Princeton) political scientist Eric Oliver, who suggests that the racial element occurs in islands of white communities in black-dominated surroundings. He suggests racial competition rather than racism per se. Worth a read.

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