US Election Map Mostly Purple
From the The Daily Princetonian:
"Four years ago, professor Robert Vanderbei created a project for his ORF 201: Computer Methods and Problem Solving class in which they took data from the 2000 election and made a map of America. But unlike most election-year graphics, they did not make theirs look like the standard red-and-blue tilings seen in many publications...
Instead of the usual red and blue, Vanderbei's map is an array of purples, with tones indicating different balances between the two major parties. Rather than highlighting each state in a color just by who won, he separates America into its counties. The resulting map is mostly purple, showing the mixture of Republicans and Democrats living together across America...
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