Monday, March 23, 2009

Nate Silver Creates Map of Racist Backwaters

Nate Silver (of 538 fame) made this map highlighting congressional districts in which the 2008 presidential party vote was greater than 9% different than in 2004. But what shows up is a bright red map of those places Americans overseas like to talk about least... and Arizona.

Oh yeah, and their were Riots in Tibet the other day. The only reason I noticed was because the nytimes.com was blocked for five minutes and I checked BBC to figure out what was going on.

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  1. What strikes me most about that post is that apparently everyone who reads that blog know the size and shape of their states congressional districts off the top of their heads. I'm political and all but that's clearly not the crowd I swing with.

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