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innergamedude OP t1_jbl011p wrote

Reply to comment by NorthImpossible8906 in Election Results and Population Density - Engaging Data by innergamedude

There's a general trend that denser places are more populated in total. San Bernardino, CA is an interesting exception of a low density place with a lot of total people.

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NorthImpossible8906 t1_jbl18dt wrote

I'm referring to the color. It appears that the all the large areas (circle size, which I presume is total votes) are blue. It appears, just eyeballing it, that the top 30 'total votes' counties are all blue. Probably more, a lot more.

It looks like you have to go all the way down to Collins County TX to finally get a red circle.

The fact that it is such a stark contrast, with none of them being republicans, is quite interesting. The rule seems to be "if you have more than 500,000 voters, then you vote democrat".

on the low end, the small circles, seem to be fairly distributed between blue and red.

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innergamedude OP t1_jbl3bt7 wrote

Right and I'm just making the connection that this works because overall population of a country closely tracks with density anyway, so it's a slightly different observation of th same phenomenon.

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Urall5150 t1_jblvtdo wrote

San Berdoo County is massive. The Inland Empire portion is as densely populated as parts of LA, the High Desert has some sizeable cities, but the vast majority of it is empty desert.

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