Dustin Cable of the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service has combined a point map of votes cast inward the 2008 Presidential Election amongst a point map of 2010 census information showing the geographical distribution of race together with ethnicity inward the United States. The map has been created to aid visualize around of the nefarious ways inward which current redistricting practices work.
The Congressional Dot Map allows y'all to straight compare the racial distribution inside congressional districts amongst Democratic together with Republican votes cast inward the district. In the accompanying spider web log postal service Dustin explains how race together with ethnicity together with by election information is ofttimes used during redistricting to alternative together with select the form of voters inward the congressional district. The spider web log postal service provides examples from the map to present how around of the nearly bizarre congressional districts convey been designed inward guild to pack every bit many types of detail voters together with ethnicity inward 1 area.
The map tin too survive used to come across whether detail ethnic groups tend to vote for 1 political party or another. For instance inward numerous polls the bulk of Hispanics convey identified every bit Democratic voters. The Congressional Dot Map seems to back upward these polls. If y'all zoom inward on areas amongst a large Hispanic population together with thus attempt the Presidential Election information y'all tin come across that inward nearly largely Hispanic areas nearly people look to convey voted for the Democrats.
This may explicate why Donald Trump latterly tweeted "I dearest Hispanics!". He similar a shot seems to realize that he mightiness withdraw around of the 27.3 1000000 Latino voters to vote for him inward the upcoming Presidential election.
