Map 1: Democratic vote VS Republican Votes of 2020 (Presidential)
Map 2: Democratic vote VS Republican votes of 2014 (Gubernational)
Map 3: Race Demographic 2020
For this map I made it that it only takes 500 votes per county to make a dot. I used dot density to be more precise. As you can see there is clearly tons of more republican votes then democratic in Texas. Where in the bigger cities like Dallas, Houston, and Austin, there is more republican vote. Yet in places in the southern part of Texas near Mexico, has more democratic votes. There is also tons of big red sections due to big cities and a bigger population in those areas.
For Map 2, I used dot density as well. For the state governor votes there is also a major republican vote. Where there is similar patterns even in the different of year, that I used for this data. This map is from 2014. The bigger cities still have big sections of red due to the bigger population/more votes. The southern part of Texas has more democratic votes for governor as well. Here I also had only 500 people make a dot for more information.
For this map I looked at the race differences between all the races possible on the website. The two main races showing up on this map were just white alone, and black or African American alone. This data is from 2020. The pink represent white people, and the green represent the black or African American people. When looking at this you can clearly see the big difference in the amount of white people then any other races in Texas. There is like 3 little sections in Fort Bend County, Jefferson County, and Robertson County, that have a more black or African American population. Yet the rest of Texas is mainly white. This might influence the culture, and the difference between voting republican or democratic in the other maps. The other races on this map are very hard to see, because there is so little of them in Texas. Not very diverse.
Texas is a state that tends to vote Republican so this data doesn't surprise me. There is also patterns in the southern part of Texas voting more democratically, then the rest of Texas. Before 2020, the southern parts of Texas like Hidalgo, Cameron, Webb etc., voted more democratically, but then once 2020 hit, it had changed to become more republican.
I think later in the election this year, Texas will still vote republican as it reflects their culture, and values more closely right now. As well as Texas having a republican governor will also contribute to the votes to the republican party.
1 comment:
It's interesting how predominately white the population of Texas is. This makes sense given the fact that Texas typically votes Republican. Another factor to consider is that Texas has the most land bordering Mexico out of any state. This makes immigration issues a big topic of voting in Texas over a different state, and I think that Texans are more likely to vote Republican because of the stricter border control that prevents some immigration related crimes that may not be seen as much by people from other states.
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