The Two Americas of 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/16/us/politics/the-two-americas-of-2016.html?_r=0

For many Americans, it feels as if the 2016 election split the country in two.To visualize this, we took the election results and created two new imaginary nations by slicing the country along the sharp divide between Republican and Democratic Americas.                                                
                                                                                     
Trump’s America
Geographically, Donald J. Trump won most of the land area of the United States. A country consisting of areas he won retains more than 80 percent of the nation’s counties.While Trump country is vast, its edges have been eroded by coastal Democrats, and it is riddled with large inland lakes of Clinton voters who were generally concentrated in dense urban areas.                              
                                                                                                         
   Clinton’s America   


Hillary Clinton overwhelmingly won the cities, like Los Angeles, Chicago and New York City, but Mr. Trump won many of the suburbs, isolating the cities in a sea of Republican voters.Mrs. Clinton’s island nation has large atolls and small island chains with liberal cores, like college towns, Native American reservations and areas with black and Hispanic majorities. While the land area is small, the residents here voted for Mrs. Clinton in large enough numbers to make her the winner of the overall popular vote.

Land Area Clinton’s America15% 530,000 square miles
Trump’s America 85% 3,000,000 square miles
Population Clinton’s America54% 174 million
Trump’s America 46% 148 million
Popular Vote As of Wednesday, Nov. 16.
For Clinton 50.4% 61.8 million
For Trump 49.6% 60.8 million

Electoral vote Clinton 232
                    Trump 306
http://www.electoral-vote.com/

Note: The illustrations are based on an analysis of county-level voting data to determine where a dividing line between areas that voted Democratic and Republican would fall.
 

Last edited by Common Sense (11/17/2016 1:31 pm)