Alabama – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Mon, 18 Dec 2017 14:52:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg Alabama – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Mapping the Alabama Senate Election Results https://www.maproomblog.com/2017/12/mapping-the-alabama-senate-election-results/ Mon, 18 Dec 2017 17:00:17 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=462416 More]]>
MCI Maps (Matthew C. Isbell)

The results of last week’s special Alabama senate election have been crunched and mapped. Matthew Isbell looks at some of the factors that contributed to Doug Jones’s upset win: education, race and voter turnout. Lots of county-by-county choropleth maps to mull over here. Meanwhile, the Washington Post is not the only one to map a salient point: Jones won the state but lost six out of seven congressional districts, thanks to the way those districts were drawn—a function of race, majority-minority districting, and gerrymandering.

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Mapping the Chance of an Upset in Alabama https://www.maproomblog.com/2017/12/mapping-the-chance-of-an-upset-in-alabama/ Thu, 07 Dec 2017 23:53:36 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=15435 More]]> The Washington Post assesses Democrat Doug Jones’s chances against Republican Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate election next month by mapping three factors: the extent to which Moore underperformed Mitt Romney in 2012 (Moore ran for chief justice of Alabama in 2012 at the same time Romney ran for president), the racial makeup of Alabama’s precincts and the 2016 precinct-level election results.

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Sweet Home: Alabama’s History in Maps https://www.maproomblog.com/2017/02/sweet-home-alabamas-history-in-maps/ Sun, 26 Feb 2017 18:01:03 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=3962 More]]> Sweet Home: Alabama’s History in Maps “is an exhibit presented by the Birmingham Public Library in celebration of Alabama’s bicentennial. The Library’s Southern History Department has carefully selected over 50 maps from our world class collection to tell the story of Alabama. The maps in this exhibit represent 450 years of exploration, expansion, and development.” It opens Wednesday and runs through the end of April; there’s also an online versionAlabama Newscenter. [Tony Campbell]

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