[FRIAM] vote

[Steve Smith]

Interesting to look at the above cartogram to see how the red/blue and
population density distribution "distorts" our country geospatially...

All the "coastlines" get stretched while the "natural resource" expanses
get shrunk. 



> The conditional probability of Trump given rural is high but you said
> that in other words.
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> Frank C. Wimberly
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> On Fri, Nov 6, 2020, 4:34 PM Prof David West <profwest at fastmail.fm
> <mailto:profwest at fastmail.fm>> wrote:
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>     A comment was made at vFRIAM that support of trump/biden was
>     "explained in large part as rural versus urban."
>
>     I just did a quick, and therefore not 100% accurate, count of the
>     population of states supporting trump: more or less 75 million. If
>     that was the sole source of his support, then 90% of the
>     population of those states — not just voters — would have to vote
>     trump to account for his 68 million votes.
>
>     Yes, flyover country is sparsely populated (in comparison) and
>     yes, they supported trump, but, just like biden, most of his
>     support had to come from urban areas.
>
>     davew
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