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21. Historical elections/GIS/alternate history nerd. UWEC student. Wisconsin revanchist. 72+15=1

Eau Claire, WI
Joined December 2022
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Decided to finally start putting together a map directory
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97% of all human accomplishment ever recorded took place here
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The House of Representatives if it was apportioned by cow population
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The House of Representatives if it was apportioned by mass transit users
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The House of Representatives if it was apportioned by population density
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This is how we were taught about the Upper Peninsula in the Wisconsin school system
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@IrishPatri0t Nah, these would be the Vice Presidents, FDR would have been declared Eternal President long ago
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@sodiumPen Hope Muslims are prepared for all the teenage edgelords converting bc Christianity has become too woke
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@vanillatary Seems like as a whole the European far-right hates immigrants more than LGBT people
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Holy cow Indian election polls have insane sample sizes
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We don't talk enough about how like a third of Maine is completely uninhabited
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The House of Representatives if it was apportioned by transgender population
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@Quaker_Opes It's destructive, unstable, and short-lived. Just like the real thing!
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@Svrdm3626 Would have 223 seats
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@GamerEssential2 @JoshLekach The classic trad message of "buy our shit"
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@Thorongil16 It represents the two most important things in Massachusetts: Donuts and lesbians
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@Simon_El_Gato__ This is the flag of some random militia group that committed 127 war crimes in the Second American Civil War
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If this happened today would the GOP just shrug and endorse Duke?
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@_sn_n This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities
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Map of how urban areas in Indiana voted in 2020. A big reason Indiana is by far the reddest state in the Midwest is that the Indianapolis metro, home to 1.6 million people, is not nearly blue enough to outweigh Republican rural and small town margins, Biden only won it by 8%.
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I love democracy
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States that have been represented in Congress by someone who punched a nun
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In 2018, Ohio voted 3-1 to limit the legislature's ability to gerrymander. The measure passed in every county, performing strongest in cities and losing only a handful of rural southeastern precincts. Th
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Define a presidential election scenario that would result in this map from the Schoolhouse Rock episode about the Electoral College
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Why are panhandles always the most fascist parts of their states?
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@TrueSlazac Jackson Hinkle pride flag
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THINK MIRROR - IT'S GOING TO BE BIBLICAL
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Mapped every presidential election in WI from 1992 to 2020 by precinct
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While on the subject of invasions. There's a foreign government occupying 15 counties in Wisconsin
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@macsquirelera "Apartments will destroy the neighborhood character!" The neighborhood character:
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2020 presidential election if only state capitals voted
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The presidential election of 1964 brought a seismic realignment to New England. Barry Goldwater's southern and western-oriented ultraconservative platform destroyed a century of Yankee Republicanism, with LBJ flipping hundreds of formerly rock-ribbed Republican towns.
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@nikicaga Wonder what happened in 2014
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Pictures taken seconds before disaster
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I find it insane that people remember every single county they've driven through
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My favorite thing about my travel map is that, despite having driven through so much of Indiana 3-4 times, I still have never had a reason to actually stop and visit anywhere in Indiana (or western Ohio)... Im convinced Indiana is just Ohio's most boring aspects put into a state
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No Republican has come within single digits of winning New York City since Richard Nixon in 1972, who lost it by only 3%. This was thanks to his strong support from middle class ethnic whites in the outer boroughs, who were a much larger voting bloc in NYC 50 years ago.
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Behold, the 1948 presidential election in New Orleans. Thurmond beat Truman in most of the city, but only got majorities in a few areas. Dewey only got 23% of the city vote but won big in the wealthy neighborhood of Audubon. Eleven precincts hadn't reported any votes yet.
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@BobBrigham @StatisticUrban @Weapon_XReject @pr0fiteer @WinterForMT ???? Where does the Constitution set maximum state populations
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Unsurprisingly, Obama overwhelmingly won his home of Chicago in the 2008 presidential primary, winning near-unanimous support among black voters and strong support from liberal whites while Clinton won Hispanic and WWC areas.
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NOT THE LIBERTARIANS DEFENDING BIN LADEN
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oh we're talking about the Civil War today?
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@Lurker27794215 @opinonhaver Stunning new survey shows that 65% of teenage boys describe themselves as politically "get the fuck out of my room I'm playing Minecraft"
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In 1969, John Lindsay, the increasingly unpopular liberal Republican mayor of NYC, was primaried by conservative state Sen. John Marchi of Staten Island. While Lindsay dominated with minorities and wealthy Manhattanites, Marchi crushed him among white ethnics and won
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Map of how urban areas in Illinois voted in 2020. Dems dominate in Chicagoland, home to 63% of the state's population, as well as most of the larger downstate urban areas. The land outside these areas is nearly Trump+40 but only contains 11% of the state's population.
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No Republican has carried New England since George H.W. Bush in 1988, when he won it by less than 0.2% This was the last gasp of the region's traditional coalitions: Democratic white ethnics/urbanites vs. Republican WASPs/suburbanites
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The 2004 Washington gubernatorial election was one of the most controversial in state history, with Democrat Christine Gregoire winning by only 133 votes. Rossi did amazingly in King County by modern standards, holding Gregoire to an 18% margin (Biden won it by 53% in 2020).
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Milwaukee was a major stronghold of the Socialist Party of America in the early 20th century, and in 1910 journalist Victor Berger became the party's first member of Congress, winning a 3-way race in the Milwaukee-dominated 5th District by a razor-thin 350 votes.
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@saltysauerkraut "Sir, a second woman has purchased a Nintendo Switch"
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110 mostly rural WI precincts voted for Ross Perot in 1992. Here's how they've voted since: 1992:🟩Perot+6.8 1996:🟦Clinton+2.5 2000:🟥Bush+14.6 2004:🟥Bush+12.5 2008:🟦Obama+3.7 2012:🟥Romney+12.6 2016:🟥Trump+35.3 2020:🟥Trump+38.7
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Minnesota has the longest unbroken Democratic presidential voting streak of any state, last voting Republican in Richard Nixon's 1972 landslide. It was still McGovern's second best state thanks to his strong showing in the Iron Range, Twin Cities, and Minnesota River Valley.
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ET is insanely out of touch with the average voter part 29382432
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@TheRightCant She's going to the voreing booth
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@BobBrigham @StatisticUrban @Weapon_XReject @pr0fiteer @WinterForMT Again, the "western water crisis" is almost entirely bc we subsidize growing water-intensive crops in the most arid part of the country
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Long reliably Republican, New England last voted to the right of the nation in Ike's 1956 landslide. Eisenhower took well over 70% in most rural areas, while Stevenson only won a handful of Catholic-dominated cities and mill towns and the heavily French-Canadian Aroostook Valley
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Accept it, get over it, move on
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LGBTQ+ people need to separate themselves from the IA. I never thought I'd see acceptance and normalization of Italian-Americans, but here we are
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@TrueSlazac Kinda crazy how Darfur was like, a big celebrity cause in the mid aughts and you basically never hear about it now
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2004 if Kerry had won by the same margin as Obama in 2008. He'd get 349 electoral votes to Bush's 189 and only lose Arkansas by 0.33%
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@depthsofwiki dream presidential ticket tbh
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In yet another defeat for election deniers, voters in Trump+14 Warren County Iowa voted 2-1 to replace county auditor David Whipple with deputy auditor Kimberly Sheets. Sheets won big in Norwalk and Indianola, with Whipple only winning a few rural precincts.
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@OregonMapGuy istg like every single time there's a sporting event in europe some sports announcer gets fired for saying something racist on a hot mic
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Miami-Dade County last voted Republican for president in 1988, when George H.W. Bush swept Florida by 20 points. He performed best in Cuban areas but dominated most of the county. Dukakis only won in black neighborhoods and in the northeast, which has a large Jewish population
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FDR was able to win ancestrally Republican New England by 9% in his 1936 landslide by building on Al Smith's coalition of urban Catholics, with his margins in cities like Boston, Hartford, and Providence vastly outweighing Landon's victories in wealthy suburbs and Yankee rurals.
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Map of the 2009 House vote on adopting a "cap and trade" system to reduce carbon emissions. The bill was shelved after only passing 219-212, with no hopes of overcoming a GOP filibuster in the Senate. 44 Democrats voted against the plan, while only 8 Republicans voted in favor.
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No Republican presidential candidate has won Chicago since 1956, when Eisenhower narrowly won the city with a coalition of middle-class whites. Stevenson was strongest on the West Side, at the time mostly white working-class but with rapidly growing Black and Mexican populations.
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@MappyPoop Why do people keep making Siberia independent? There's basically no remotely serious independence movement there
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Matt Cartwright owes his political career in large part to the PAGOP's 2012 gerrymander, which gave incumbent Tim Holden a district that was 80% unfamiliar to him. While Holden dominated in his old district, it wasn't enough to overcome Cartwright's strength in the Wyoming Valley
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Uncommitted won a precinct in Madison
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Unsurprisingly, Ronald Reagan fared poorly in deep-blue San Francisco in 1984, only winning a few areas in the southwest, and some wealthy areas on the north coast. Mondale was strongest in areas like Bayview-Hunters Point and the Western Addition with large black populations.
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The demon twinks must be stopped
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Map of the best performing Dem presidential nominee in each WI municipality from 1992 to 2020. Unsurprisingly, Bill Clinton and Obama 08 dominate the map, with Clinton doing the best in rural/exurban northern/eastern WI...
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@PoliticsLs Strange why he'd choose those specific areas to not have 2 votes
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Trump MUST run third-party. He's guaranteed to win at least 127 EVs from these states, which have never voted for a Catholic. This will allow him to send the election to the House and act as kingmaker, ensuring that America will be liberated from Papist tyranny
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@_fat_ugly_rat_ Whoops, somebody spilled Houston again. Look, it's seeping into all the cracks
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Harry Truman easily won New York City in his upset reelection in 1948, doing best in Harlem and the South Bronx, then majority-Jewish. Dewey did best in suburban areas like Queens and Staten Island, as well as wealthy areas in Manhattan like the Upper East Side and Midtown.
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According to America Votes Nixon almost won DC's third ward in 1972
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@rice_rust_belt They made a train out of him
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@HOL0DOMOR @Java_jigga The failure of Reconstruction and its consequences have been a disaster for the American people
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Before 2018, the last time a Democrat won a Senate Seat in Arizona was Dennis DeConcini's reelection in 1988. He cleaned up in rural areas while Republican Keith DeGreen kept the margins close in Phoenix's conservative suburbs.
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In 1910, Milwaukee made history by electing Emil Seidel as the first Socialist mayor of a major American city. Seidel won big margins among the city's working-class immigrants, especially the Germans on the North Side.
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Here's how the Milwaukee metro area has voted in every presidential election from 1992 to 2020. This area is crucial to both parties' paths to victory in WI: large margins in the WOW counties for Republicans and a large margin in Milwaukee itself for Democrats.
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Map of the 2/8/1941 House vote on the Lend-Lease Act, aiding the Allied Powers. The law passed 260-135, mostly along party lines but with some interesting regional breakdowns. 24 mostly Northeastern Republicans voted yea, while 25 mostly Midwestern/NYC Democrats voted nay.
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In 1974, St. Paul became one of the first U.S. cities to pass an ordinance banning discrimination on basis of sexual orientation. Just four years later however, the city voted 63-36 to repeal the ordinance. Repeal lost big in Summit-University but passed almost everywhere else.
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During the 1930s hundreds of thousands of people left the Depression and Dust Bowl-ravaged Great Plains for the western states, especially California. This is shown by a map of 1930-40 population changes, with the west seeing huge growth while the plains states bleed population.
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Behold, the last time Milwaukee voted Republican for president. Ike's base was the growing suburbs in the north/west and upscale lakeshore neighborhoods. Stevenson did well in the blue-collar Polish neighborhoods on the south side and the growing black community in the north.
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@MassJumbo YOU WILL PRY "OPE" FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS
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Map of the difference in raw vote margins between Evers and Barnes. While Barnes ran behind Evers' vote totals almost everywhere except the UW-Madison area and black precincts in Milwaukee, he underperformed most in suburban areas, especially WOW. Huh, wonder why that was.🤔
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Map of the change in raw vote margin from 2012 to 2016. Trump's largest gains were in Rust Belt industrial cities and blue collar suburbs, while Clinton made big gains in affluent suburban areas and most major cities.
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LMFAO OBAMA LOST TREMPEALEAU COUNTY IN THE 2008 PRIMARY
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Can't believe the ALCU would post this transphobic bile.
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👋🏾 Just going to drop this Sunday evening reminder here. #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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Florida saw a hotly contested Senate election in 1988, with congressman Connie Mack III narrowly defeating his colleague Buddy MacKay to succeed retiring Democrat Lawton Chiles. Mack's win was largely thanks to big margins in Jax, Orlando, and the Panhandle.
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@libdembounce If DC was a state it would have 6 representatives
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One struggle
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Jokes aside, this is pretty much an open-and-shut expulsion case and it would be an absolute disgrace if he somehow lasted his full term in the Senate.
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