Ethno-Political Mapping

This map shows ethno-political similarities among States. It uses the Census Ancestry Question and the Kerry '04 election results.

DC, for example, is ethno-politically an outlier and is not "connected" to any state.

This was quickly calculated using the 38 largest ancestry responses nationally plus "African American" from the "race" question as well as the Kerry 04 results. A more detailed ethno-political mapping is planned with addition ethnicities and political information that need to be culled from other sources.

This map is not scaled to show "distance". So, for example, while the most closely ethno-politically related states to HI are CA and NM, the distance is rather substantial. and the distance from CA and NM to TX is also rather substantial. On the other hand the distance among the Southern State clusters are extremely close.