Tutorial on how to make a map using QGIS. I'll turn @SenhorRaposa's 2000 Vermont town data into a map showing by how much Gore outran Senator Jeffords (or vice versa) in every town.
Step 1: Download QGIS for your computer, which is available here: qgis.org/en/site/foruse…
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I'm not one for nostalgia: Election Twitter was never a perfect place free of silly drama and fights. But the events have the past day, where @SocalPopulist and "friends" defamed me by posting fake DMs I never sent, have moved the nonsense to a whole new level.
A thread:
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This wasn't the first time someone defamed me using fake Tweets I never sent. That was actually on May 1. 2023, when now-banned @FuckYouGute posted fake DMs suspiciously similar to the ones posted last night. Let me be clear: I never sent any of these DMs.
Naively, I replied.
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As you can see, that had the effect of blowing up the defamatory Tweet, racking up 34.1K impressions in 2 hours.
For the doubters out there, the initial Tweet has since been deleted, but my response still lives on:
Republican @KristyforNY Marmorato flipped an East Bronx NYC City Council seat tonight. The precinct winner map.
She cleaned up in traditionally Italian-American areas like Country Club and Throggs Neck, and kept margins down in the more Hispanic parts, too.
@PatrickRuffini
Meanwhile, in Queens, incumbent Republican City Councilwoman @VickieforNYC Paladino easily won her rematch against @TonyAvella by about 20 points. Paladino won almost every precinct in the process.
VA Beach is one of the few VA localities that reports election day checkins. A gif of VA Beach turnout as of about 9AM (EV + ED). Citywide, 16.8% of RVs have voted - about 34% of the 2021 vote.
It appears relative turnout is generally higher in Youngkin-voting areas - but this pattern definitely isn't uniform.
The static maps:
No sooner do I post this than we get a Noon update. Updated GIF:
Like Boston, Greater Philadelphia's top AHR is largely Irish. And like in Boston, the Irishness fades the further you get from the city center. Pennsylvania (German) Dutch Country - and arguably the Midwest - starts in the PA exurbs.
Finally (for now) Greater Atlanta is CSA #10. Since Census didn't separately report those who self-reported themselves as American, English is now tops in a majority of tracts. African-American is next.
Some Asian groups are tops in N Fulton/W Gwinnett/S Forsyth County suburbs.
Census released its 2022 incorporated place population estimates. I now have an interactive version of this map. The default map is 2020-22 PCT Change. Click the Menu button to toggle between PCT or Numerical change and the years you want to see.