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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What's the medium sized red dot just north of LA? I live around there and it makes sense but there's a lot of small-ish towns around here and I don't know what it represents. What population patterns do these dots represent? I'm guessing the red dot is either Visalia, Tulare County, San Joaquin Valley in general, or Fresno.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The dots are counties - the largest red one above LA is Kern county - Tulare county is the smaller red dot above it to the right

This is a clearer version of that map. The other two much smaller red dots above LA are Kings and Inyo counties - this map is based on 2016 presidential results, as Inyo went blue in 2020 (by only 14 votes though)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah and that's only because they lean that way by slim majorities. There's still mid 40s percent democrat affiliation here in both counties. I'd like to see a version of this map that shows the purple continuum. That would reveal even more.