Patrick Cox over at TCS has a new article up comparing politcal vote by county in the 2004 election and population density. He does not give into the folly of trying to give absolute answers to the correlation, as many pundits have, but mearly makes observations and proposes some theories. The one thing he does say with some conviction is;
Depressingly deterministic as it is, this correlation, if it continues, may mean that future elections will be decided by immigration patterns, reproductive rates and technologies that allow more businesses and workers to locate in suburban and rural locations.
An interesting read, I post it hear for discussions sake.
Update upon re-reading the article I noticed Patrick uses population density by county from 1990. Here’s a number of maps that are more up-to-date and also show population density change, population and change by age etc.
Update II By special request, here are census 2000 national maps based on racial demographics;
African-American
American Indian
Asian
Multi-racial
Hawaiian
Hispanic or Latino Origin
White
Posted by scottm at 01:23 PM