Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html
Indulge me another email on this subject? (I had already written this
email last week. I had hoped to pin down a conclusion before sending it,
but turned up little absolute.) In my defense, though: CNN, the NY Times,
the Washington Post, and US News & World Report all use the color theme
I originally recommended, as you can see below.
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, D Martin wrote:
> Until the television coverage this year, I have always seen Republican blue
> and Democrat red. This is in fact the color scheme that the Republican
> National Committee prefers in their maps too.
Well, here's a survey of what I've been able to find:
Blue = Democrat
Red = Republican
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/results/
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/politics/index.html
(click on the word "map" on the left)
http://teacher.scholastic.com/newszone/specialreport/map/map.asp
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/election/map.htm
http://www.perno.com/apush/elections/1932.htm
http://www.electyou.com/electoralmap.htm
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/elections/2000/results/senate/front.htm
Blue = Republican
Red = Democrat
http://www.avagara.com/politics/electmap/
http://www.hotlinescoop.com/web/content/campaignscoop/whitehouse/evscore.htm
http://www.reuters.com/news.jhtml?type=politics#
click on "elections 2000"
http://www.esri.com/library/userconf/proc00/professional/papers/PAP121/p121.htm
Ah well, all that information, and still I couldn't turn up anything on
the history of this color convention (in part because the search word
"convention" doesn't really help here).
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