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. > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > > On Fri, Nov 6, 2020, 4:34 PM Prof David West <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > 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 > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > <http://bit.ly/virtualfriam> > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > <http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC <http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/FRIAM-COMIC> > http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ <http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/> > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
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