This is a followup to my diary last weekend, "Gallup Data Says: A Center-Right Nation No More". Since it seems that Barack Obama and the DC Democratic establishment have completely forgotten what happened last November, I'll just remind them: they won. And I I'll start off with this visually reminder of the party ID shift over the last 6 years that fueled that victory:
Now, the main point of this diary is to add in what was left out of the first installment, an examination of the shifts that includes state populations. Fun and games on the flip.
This week, Gallup released a report on the partisan makeup of the states, based on all its interviews during 2008. I diaried about it hurriedly here, and promised a more comprehensive diary on the weekend. Voila! That promise is hereby kept.
Here's the map that Gallup put out, showing just 5 red states:
I used a more nuanced division, and put it onto a map divided into census regions, producing the following:
The most obvious thing about these results is that they provide yet another form of evidence for a massive realignment-something that Versailles is still massively out of touch with. In fact, it's still quite a distinct possibility that the current Democratic dominance could fall apart precisely because they fail to give the people what the people are hungering for-a sweeping and fundamental change of direction. (See David's latest post, for example.)
A table of the underlying state-by-state data kicks off the extended diary.
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