11/6/2004: Visual display of the electoral divide

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Kitsune

That's because the homunculus LabRat posted is the motor cortex representation, not the somatosensory one.

Uh....right...what he said.

[Urethra]

There's more information about those maps at Wikipedia . And another version here.

I like Cyber Wolf's idea about making an animated version for the last 20 years or so. The results would be very interesting.

[Griff]

Maybe next election cycle we can get a map of voting by street address.

[axlrosen]

Originally Posted by Kitsune

Based on how much time we spend thinking about it, I'm suprised the naughty bits aren't larger....

That's because the homunculus LabRat posted is the motor cortex representation, not the somatosensory one.

In that case, why do the "naughty bits" show up at all?

BTW I Googled the somatosensory homonculus, and he looks even weirder...

[wolf]

Okay, so it's in his left hand or what?

[jaguar]

Here is another wa of looking at it:
Urban Archipelago
With any luck it'll catch on.

[Happy Monkey]

Good article. A little strident on religion, which will probably turn a few people off, though I personally agree.

[Torrere]

I wonder how a whale penis would show up on the whale equivalent of a somatosensory homunculus.

[BigV]

Regarding the red/blue maps...

I agree that the oversimple party choice color / state outline (or county outline for that matter) presents a greatly distorted impression that our nation is waaaay more "red" than "blue". But still controlling for that by using the same state by state map and using the same color scheme, I found a very interesting observation with respect to Federal Tax distributions.

I googled up "donor states federal taxes" and found several links that contained maps that bore a striking resemblance to the electoral map.

Try it for yourself and see. Several theories come to mind explaining the similarities.

Yours--

[xoxoxoBruce]

Aw c'mon BigV, you already did it, post the damn link(s).
And welcome to the Cellar.

[BigV]

Hello Bruce,

Thanks for the welcome. I refrained from posting the links not because I am coy, but because the "rules" warn that first posts containing links get forwarded to the twilight zone, and I wished to avoid that fate. My apologies for the obliqueness of the post.

Here are some sample images I found. (I hope)

*whew*

Top image, red states=beggar states, blue states=donor states for federal tax dollars

bottom image red states=beggar states, green states=donor states, gray states=neutral ($1 collected:$1 received)

[Happy Monkey]

I think that the top image is the 2000 election, not a beggar/donor map.

[Undertoad]

That second map looks like where the rich people live. With the exception of Virginia, which is where the rich people live who know how to get tax breaks.

[BigV]

Negative. Here is the link containing the map image.

http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_b...ates_feed.html

And the second one.

http://melvinfrohike.dailykos.com/st...1/15/12918/784

Yours,

[Happy Monkey]

I wouldn't put the midwest in the "rich people haven" category. In fact, at least one rich person from Illinois (Ditka) didn't run against Obama in part because he'd have to move his legal residence from Florida.