The BLUEST COUNTIES!

[XemaSab]

District of Columbia: 92.9

Prince George's, MD: 88.9

Shannon, SD: 88.7

Petersburg, VA: 88.6

Bronx, NY: 88.2

Baltimore: 87.5

Jefferson, MS: 87.0

Menominee, WI: 86.9

Macon, AL: 86.9

Manhattan, NY: 85.1

San Francisco, CA: 84.7

Claiborne, MS: 84.5

Starr, TX: 84.5

Zavala, TX: 84.2

St. Louis City County, MO: 83.7

Greene, AL: 83.2

Sioux, ND: 83.1

Phaladelphia, PA: 83.0

Clayton, GA: 83.0

Taos, NM: 81.5

Hancock, GA: 81.1

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San Miguel, NM: 79.8

New Orleans, LA: 79.3

De Kalb, GA: 79.0

Brooklyn, NY: 78.9

Alameda, CA: 78.8

Mora, NM: 78.6

Maverick, TX: 78.2

Todd, SD: 78.1

Marin, CA: 77.9

Santa Cruz, CA: 77.8

Suffolk, MA: 77.5

San Miguel, CO: 77.1

Santa Fe, NM: 76.8

Tunica, MS: 76.5

Noxubee, MS: 76.3

Maui, HI: 76.7

Hawaii, HI: 76.0

Essex, NJ: 75.9

Durham, NC: 75.8

Brooks, TX: 75.7

Cook, IL: 75.4

Boulder, CO: 75.2

Berkshire, MA: 75.2

Rolette, ND: 75.1

Dimmit, TX: 75.1

Allandale, SC: 75.1

Dukes, MA: 75.1

Kauai, HI: 75.0

Sumter, AL: 74.9

Lowndes, AL: 74.9

Rio Arriba, NM: 74.8

Duval, TX: 74.8

Multnomah, OR: 74.8

Queens, NY: 74.4

Wayne, MI: 74.2

Bullock, AL: 74.1

Sonoma, CA: 73.8

Pitkin, CO: 73.7

San Mateo, CA: 73.7

Jim Hogg, TX: 73.6

Windham, VT: 73.6

Costilla, CO: 73.4

Buffalo, SD: 73.3

Coahoma, MS: 73.1

Dane, WI: 73.0

Hudson, NJ: 72.7

Franklin, MA: 72.5

Perry, AL: 72.3

Orange, NC: 72.1

Hampshire, MA: 71.8

King, WA: 71.5

Webb, TX: 71.5

Humphreys, MS: 71.4

McKinley, NM: 71.3

Montgomery, MD: 71.3

Presidio, TX: 71.3

Wilcox, AL: 71.0

Guadalupe, NM: 70.9

Lamoille, VT: 70.8

Hertford, NC: 70.6

Norfolk, VA: 70.6

San Juan, WA: 70.5

Sunflower, MS: 70.4

Johnson, IA: 70.2


http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/president/map.html

[Taverner]

1. Maverick, TX: 78.2

:rofl:

[XemaSab]

6. That cracked me up too!

:rofl:

[jpljr77]

2. National Capital region representin'

:woohoo:

[cyberswede]

3. we eked it out!

Johnson, IA: 70.2

yay!

[progressoid]

8. But we're still stuck with Sioux County

voting 81% for McPalin. :grr:

[chiefofclarinet]

31. We should export Sioux County to South Dakota

If we had kicked Sioux County out of Iowa prior to 2004, Kerry would have won Iowa by a couple hundred votes.

[EFerrari]

4. We're No. 11 !

:woohoo:

[XemaSab]

5. Number of bluest counties by state:

Texas: 9

Alabama: 7

Mississippi: 7

New Mexico: 7

California: 6

Massachusetts: 5

Colorado: 4

New York: 4

Georgia: 3

Hawaii: 3

Maryland: 3

North Carolina: 3

South Dakota: 3

New Jersey: 2

North Dakota: 2

Vermont: 2

Virginia: 2

Washington: 2

Wisconsin: 2

District of Columbia: 1

Illinois: 1

Iowa: 1

Louisiana: 1

Michigan: 1

Missouri: 1

Oregon: 1

Pennsylvania: 1

South Carolina: 1

[KamaAina]

16. But we only have four counties (five if you count Kalawao, the Hansen's disease settlement)

oddly, the only organized county NOT on the list is the one Barack's from. Mine. :(

[progressoid]

7. Did you go through each state one by one?

[XemaSab]

9. I did, yes

:)

[DS1]

10. Berkshire, MA: 75.2

:woohoo:

[Cha]

11. Rec'd!

Thanks..interesting.

[depakid]

12. Interesting to see how many of those are in red states.

[misanthrope]

15. Well, look at the poverty rates in those red state counties...

...and it will make more sense.

The only counties in Alabama that went blue were Jefferson (inner city B'ham from where white folks fled a couple of decades ago) and the Black Belt, which is chiefly rural, predominantly African-American and has Third World level living conditions.

[depakid]

17. Curious point. It would be cool to see some cross tabs

with respect to the red areas- as well as the blue areas, like Marin.

I bet there are a lot of interesting things that can be teased out of the data.

[PM7nj]

18. They are very, very poor and almost 100% African or Native American.

Shannon County, SD is part of a reservation and the second poorest county in the US.

[Lex]

26. Well in NC (now a blue state) those counties are UNIVERSITY counties

and definitely NOT the "poorest" counties.

[Texasgal]

13. Nice to see some Texas counties there!

:)

[Occam Bandage]

14. I was hoping to see Cook a bit higher, but hey.

[Barack_America]

19. Go Philly! 83%! My ward? 96% for Obama!

:loveya:

[PM7nj]

20. My county didn't do too bad... 67.1% for Obama!

Camden County, NJ :D

[AnnieBW]

21. I'm in Number 2!!!

Yeah, baby!

Prince Georges County, MD is majority AA, but is very ethnically diverse. We have everything from almost inner-city crime to multi-million dollar mansions, all within a relatively short drive. I'm from the very northern tip of the county, which was pretty solid Obama territory. I was down in Accokeek, which is the very southern part by the Potomac River over the weekend, and saw nothing by McCain/Palin signs.

So hell yeah, I'm proud!

[cemaphonic]

22. Yay, there's King

And it's not just Seattle, it's a big county with a fair amount of conservative suburban and rural areas.

[XemaSab]

28. I was surprised to see King county on the list

Some of the suburban and rural areas are VERY conservative up there.

[itsrobert]

23. You do realized counties out West are a lot larger than the ones in the East.

It seemed when I was in Florida, I was entering a new county every 20 miles while driving the Interstate.

[XemaSab]

29. It's not necessarily analogous between states, no

Some of the counties have 10 people, and some have 10,000,000. :P

[Lex]

24. Durham County NC -- BLUER than Cook County IL

:woohoo: That's my county!

[Catherine Vincent]

25. Maverick, TX: 78.2??

It beat out Harris?

[bicentennial_baby]

27. Yay! Yay! Franklin County MA!

:woohoo:

[ACTION BASTARD]

30. Bronx, NY: 88.2 My hometown represents! We know what time it is.