Appalachia
By Joe Campbell
November 6th, 2008
Yglesias gets there before me - pointing out the similarities between this map from the New York Times showing the areas of the country that voted more for McCain than for Bush between 2004 and 2008 and some other maps:
Here's a map of those areas where Hillary Clinton overperformed during the primary (as of May 2008). She later overperformed in two of the remaining blank states here - West Virgina and Kentucky.
And here's a map of Appalachia:
Notice - this isn't a map of Republican areas. It's a map of those areas where Hillary Clinton did exceptionally well, and a map of where Republican voting in 2008 exceeded that of 2004.
This issue seems a lot less urgent now than it did even last week.
But it's worth remembering.
Tags: Appalachia, Matt Yglesias, The New York Times
Comments
Factus Mirabilus · 2008-11-06
It just shows where the white folks are - black people didnt move to the hills.You are obviously a white-hating black fellow to whom Appalachia is contemptible, but it is just honest poor folk that are pretty much nice.
joe@2parse · 2008-11-06
That's factually inaccurate.White folks account for most of the rest of the map as well - yet those areas didn't vote in higher percentages for McCain than Bush. Commenting without facts makes you look ignorant.
Massimo Moruzzi · 2008-11-07
my 2 cents: hilly-billies prefer a white woman to a black man. But they would have voted a white man over a white woman anyway.TC · 2008-11-11
As an Appalachian resident, I must admit that Massimo nailed it.