- 25 Jun 2018 06:38
#14927317
Awhile back, one columnist pointed out that you can't really judge who is a Red State and who is a Blue State just by the latest presidential election, that ignores both how the states vote for other offices and how they vote over time. I was curious just how things would look if you measured both, so I looked at how each state voted for the House of Representatives, the Senate, Governor, and President in elections covering the sixteen years from 2001 to 2016, assigning each category an equal weight. For example, Missouri voted for House Republicans 62.3% of the time, Republican Senators 60% of the time, Republican Governors 33.3% of the time, and Republican Presidents 100% of the time, for a final score of 63.9%.
So, counting all states with a score greater then 67% as Red States and all with a score equal to or below 33% as Blue States, and everything in between as Purple, the lists look like this:
Red States (18)
Purple States (17)
Blue States (15)
It'll be interesting to see how the list changes, if at all, after this November.
So, counting all states with a score greater then 67% as Red States and all with a score equal to or below 33% as Blue States, and everything in between as Purple, the lists look like this:
Red States (18)
- Idaho 98.2%
- Alabama 93.9%
- Nebraska 93.8%
- Alaska 93.8%
- South Carolina 93.8%
- Utah 93.5%
- Texas 90.8%
- Georgia 90.1%
- Mississippi 89.3%
- Wyoming 87.5%
- Oklahoma 83.9%
- Kansas 83.0%
- South Dakota 79.3%
- Kentucky 77.4%
- Tennessee 77.2%
- Louisiana 75.8%
- Arizona 72.6%
- Indiana 72.5%
Purple States (17)
- North Dakota 67.0%
- Florida 66.9%
- Missouri 63.9%
- North Carolina 60.8%
- Ohio 60.1%
- Arkansas 59.2%
- Nevada 59.0%
- Montana 55.0%
- Iowa 54.4%
- West Virginia 42.3%
- Wisconsin 40.4%
- Pennsylvania 39.7%
- Colorado 35.8%
- Virginia 34.7%
- New Mexico 34.5%
- Maine 34.3%
- Michigan 33.6%
Blue States (15)
- New Hampshire 31.1%
- Minnesota 28.2%
- Illinois 26.2%
- New Jersey 24.0%
- California 18.5%
- Connecticut 17.5%
- Maryland 17.4%
- Massachusetts 16.7%
- Delaware 14.3%
- Vermont 14.3%
- New York 12.7%
- Hawaii 12.5%
- Rhode Island 12.5%
- Oregon 10.0%
- Washington 9.2%
It'll be interesting to see how the list changes, if at all, after this November.
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
—Edmund Burke
—Edmund Burke