Note: This is my first post after making some changes to the site’s infrastructure. I hope it’s still working.
Here’s another fun bit of conservative propaganda I found on Facebook:
Once again I have to point out that you can make any political point with data and statistics, liberal, conservative, or any variation between.
And here’s another reminder that I still don’t know the source for that picture of the National Mall or when it was taken. However, calling it “not accurate” is … not accurate, as I’ve discussed before.
Now about that voting map. First let’s point out that we can’t tell just from that Facebook post whether the map is real or not, since there is nothing showing the source. Some guy could have made that image in Photoshop for all we know. But let’s assume it’s true because I’ve seen similar maps from a wide variety of sources, and it’s consistent with voting patterns from the last three presidents.
The most obvious thing I can say about that map is that while it looks like the amount of red totally dominates the amount of blue, in reality there are probably more people in the blue places than in the red places. That’s because most of those blue areas are probably urban areas, and most of those red areas are probably rural areas where you might not see another person for hundreds of miles.
I have to caveat the above statements with “probably” because the map is colored only with red and blue. It should be colored largely in shades of purple. The map makes it look like everyone in the red areas voted for Trump. In reality, those counties are colored red if more than 50% of voters went for Trump. If you were to color the map in such a way that it only showed red in places where 100% of voters went for Trump, there would not be very much red on that map.
