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PVI Guy ✯
@PviGuy
Posting maps of each state's Partisan Voter Index for every election curiouscat.me/PviGuy
Joined July 2020
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    #ElectionTwitter I've created a new metric called the County Power Index, or CPI, which measures the percentage of a state's total votes that each county casts. @kilometerbryman and @lxeagle17 have helped me to make this map of CPI for every state in the country.
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    As I've mentioned before, ethnic identity used to be a highly salient issue for White voters. For example, FDR's opposition to Nazi Germany caused a substantial number of German-Americans to defect to the GOP in the 1940 election.
    Map created by @Mill226
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    #ElectionTwitter Here's a big reason why Nevada is still a swing state:
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    #ElectionTwitter Here's why Texas is a red state:
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    #ElectionTwitter Here is a map of the percentage of ethnic French by county, according to the 1980 census. The most French area was Vermilion parish in Louisiana, which was 55% French.
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    #ElectionTwitter Despite the fact that FDR was one of the most popular presidents in US history, several counties still voted against him in all 4 of his elections. Here's a map of how these ancestrally Republican counties voted in the 2020 election.
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    #ElectionTwitter Here's why Florida is now a solidly red state:
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    #ElectionTwitter Here's why Florida is a red-leaning state:
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    #ElectionTwitter Here's a dot map of the 2020 presidential election in the US. Biden managed to win the popular vote by dominating in the most populous states like California and New York, while Trump was unable to get enough votes out of Texas or Florida to overcome him.
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    #ElectionTwitter Here is a map of how each state's congressional delegation voted on approving the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993.
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    #ElectionTwitter Here is a map of the swing by county from 1964-1976. Jimmy Carter did substantially better than LBJ in the South while doing worse in regions such as the Northeast.
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    #ElectionTwitter Here's a map of how each state's congressional delegation voted on the Immigration Act of 1965, which eliminated quotas established in 1924 and opened Asian immigration.
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    During the 1984 presidential election, New Hampshire voted 13 points more Republican than Mississippi.
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    #ElectionTwitter In this thread, I'll discuss the impact that the World Wars had on German-American voting patterns (fyi, this is an extremely long thread).