Wednesday, November 14, 2012

100 Million Year Old Shoreline and Voting Obama

Image from Paleogeography and Geologic Evolution of North America.

2008 Presidential County Election Results. Map from New York Times.
New York Times 2008 Blue counties voted for Obama

Dave Tucker alerted me to this and apparently it is making the rounds so I am helping spread it as well. The original observation of southern voting patterns linked to the former Cretaceous shoreline was noted by Steven Dutch back in 2002 ( http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/Research/Elec2000/GeolElec2000.HTM). Craig McClain follows up (ttp://deepseanews.com/2012/06/how-presidential-elections-are-impacted-by-a-100-million-year-old-coastline/).

1 comment:

Sweat Hog said...

Ha Ha, funny coincidence.