Map taken from u/Heatmap_BP3 on r/YAPms Edit: Thanks to u/NelsonMinar for providing the true source by Ryan Rohla.

I believe this map fixes the problem that most other maps of this kind have that they show a bunch of red counties without showing where the red voters actually are.

Also, the rural west is really empty.

Edit: The results in Guam and Puerto Rico are from the presidential straw polls they held in 2024.

Posted by False-Lettuce-6074

32 Comments

  1. You can easily spot the three corners of the Texas Triangle (Dallas/Houston/San Antonio). The red in between Austin and SA is New Braunfels. The rest of the I-35 corridor in that area has been getting bluer each year.

  2. thebasementcakes on

    Interesting how some college towns seem to have more spread of the blue, Madison and Iowa City…

  3. Maxinator10000 on

    Very interesting. It seems that it’s nearly a perfect divide between blue in the densely populated cities and red in the suburbs and the rural areas, except for Anchorage and Miami voting red and the not so densely populated places of the black belt, Navajo, and Vermont voting blue.

  4. Visually I’m not sure this does enough to compensate for density. I wouldn’t know for example how heavily California contributes to the scale of Democratic votes. It just looks like it has a couple of dark blue areas, on par with maybe a couple Seattles or Atlantas.

  5. This is the kind of voting map I can get behind. It still shows that there were a lot of Republican voters, but it’s not so crazily skewed towards how land votes.

  6. What’s crazy to me is you can actually see the shape of the Piedmont in blue. And you can see the shape of the Appalachians. This is the coolest, most honest map of this sort that I’ve ever seen. Awesome

  7. DreadLockedHaitian on

    Looking at this map again, it’s pretty clear that the BosWash corridor is ideologically connected vs the rest of the nation. The Blue metros spread throughout the rest of the nation function as islands of…idk what to call it 😂.

    I mean on the other hand, it also lines up with the original 13 colonies save for the Carolinas and Georgia. And even then, you can clearly see the ‘Black Belt’ effect in those states.

    For curiosity’s sake, I’d love to see a map showing the routes of the Underground Railroad overlayed on this map….

  8. Duc_de_Magenta on

    Are there any “inverse Vermonts?” Generally politics is pretty simple; rural votes moderate/red, urban votes **hard** blue. Only Vermont, and the black belt, really bucks that trend.

    Does any major city vote overwhelmingly for red-team?

  9. sadlittlecrow1919 on

    I wonder why Milwaukee’s suburbs are still so conservative when many other city’s suburbs (especially nearby Chicago’s) have become increasingly blue. 

  10. So what’s the deal with the light blue area in the southeastern US? The area running from north of New Orleans to the Atlantic. Looks like low density so are these even cities?

  11. The truth is that the only thing the Constitution requires is that Congress approves of a territory becoming a state. There is no population requirement, there is no population growth requirement, there isn’t even a consent requirement. So the only question that really matters, legally speaking, is this: should the people of Guam be disenfranchised forever, or should there be a path for them to have equal say over American politics? And if your answer is “there aren’t enough of them to matter,” so be it.

  12. The level of political diversity around lake Tahoe is truly fascinating. I didn’t expect that at all.

  13. Check_Me_Out-Boss on

    I’d love to see the blue and red combined to get a picture of which one is denser overall.

  14. very cool map! I’d love to see a version of it where the number of people involved in each precinct is somehow represented. Perhaps a 3D rendering with altitude ? Or perhaps there is a way to distort the 2D view ?