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Ergotron_2000 t1_it2z1jh wrote

I have little idea what is being shown here. all info way to small to easily read, labeling not clear.

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terrykrohe OP t1_it5se17 wrote

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the top left plot is the incarceration rate of the fifty US states ... the states are not identified because it is not important ... what is important is the states' Electoral College vote in the 2020 election

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the top right plot is the 'rural-urban' value of each of the fifty states (see the "top comment" for the definition of 'rural-urban')

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the bottom plot is a plot of the ('rural-urban, incarceration) coordinates of the fifty states

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the important point to see is that the best-fit line slopes of the Rep states and the Dem states are oppositely directed and that the Dem states correlation value is "less noisy" than the Rep states correlation value

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