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Saturday, February 5, 2005

[Social Design Notes]: Despite increasing consolidated and homogenous media and increasingly pervasive Internet access, ideology exists spatially.

Six links in that posting. Click 'em all. You'll see a fascinating range of cartographic interpretations on the Bush-Kerry election, which offer some very different perspectives on what the election actually disclosed about the mind of the country -- and which suggest very different political strategies for the Democrats. Consider the difference (these maps courtesy of
Michael Gastner, Cosma Shalizi, and Mark Newman, University of Michigan) between this:

and this:



and this:

In this map, it appears that only a rather small area is taken up by true red counties, the rest being mostly shades of purple with patches of blue in the urban areas.


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