Anomalies in Red and Blue II: Towards an Understanding of the Roles of Setting, Values, and Demography in the 2004 and 2008 U.S. Presidential Elections

Authors

Richard L. Morrill, University of Washington - Seattle CampusFollow
Larry Knopp, University of Washington TacomaFollow
Michael Brown, University of Washington - Seattle CampusFollow

Publication Date

3-1-2011

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Counties identified as anomalous in the 2004 US presidential election - large metropolitan counties and majority minority counties that voted Republican and non and small-metropolitan counties that voted Democratic, are the subject of a qualitative analysis to assess why they were exceptions to the conventional wisdom of a Red and Blue America polarized along metropolitan-non-metropolitan and modern versus traditional dimensions. Contacts with professional colleagues, and with media and partisan representatives, and visits to selected counties provided valuable insights and helped us to assess the extent to which the county votes in 2008 reinforced or changed the broad Red and Blue dimensions derived from 2000 to 2004.

Publication Title

Political Geography

Volume

30

Issue

3

First Page

153

Last Page

168

DOI

10.1016/j.polgeo.2011.03.006

Publisher Policy

pre-print, post-print

Recommended Citation

Morrill, Richard L.; Knopp, Larry; and Brown, Michael, "Anomalies in Red and Blue II: Towards an Understanding of the Roles of Setting, Values, and Demography in the 2004 and 2008 U.S. Presidential Elections" (2011). SIAS Faculty Publications. 166.
https://digitalcommons.tacoma.uw.edu/ias_pub/166