Red State Blue State Paradox as a Graph
David Epstein suggested that we should have a simple graph in the beginning of our book that could concisely summarize the Red State Blue State paradox. We came up with this figure. What do you think? Does this convey the paradox, or not? I’m deliberately not providing a full explanation of the graph since we created it to be self-explanatory.
P.S. Thanks for all the comments regarding the cover design. All the design covers were a very rough mock-up. I’ll let you know which cover wins as soon as I hear.
Comments
I am a big fan of this graph. It portrays the paradox very clearly (to me, at least). Looking forward to the book.
Posted by: Dan Miller | April 4, 2008 01:18 PM
Obviously, It says rich states have more poor voters.
Posted by: Pendulous Brains | April 4, 2008 01:54 PM
Graph is terrible, and misleading. Is the vertical axis a continuum (vote shares for Rep vs. Dem)? Otherwise, why have a line graph. Tufte would frown.
Posted by: Adam | April 5, 2008 03:47 AM