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8/03/2021 9:12 pm  #1


Maps with Politics

The Silver Dog with the Golden Tail
https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:19343394
It seems these days the party planks don’t mean much and are pretty vague in the first place.
So are campaign promises because it’s Congress that does the real damage... er, makes the laws.
Every election finds us fighting more and more over bogus claims and non-issues.
Looks like, oh look over there I’ll watch you wallet for you.

We’re coming up on 250 years old but what were the elections like in the past, say half way.
The 1896 United States presidential election was between Bryan (silver) and McKinley(Gold).
McKinley, backed by businessmen, professionals, prosperous farmers, and skilled factory workers spent
$3.5 million ($113,206,667 today) and won 7,112,138 (51.1%) to 6,510,807 (47.7%).
The tail wagged the dog.
National democratic Party J.M.Palmer 0.93%.   Prohibition Party J.Levering 0.33%.




 


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8/03/2021 9:33 pm  #2


Re: Maps with Politics

Reynolds Political Map of the United States in the Cornell Library.
https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:19343476
The size is 33.904” x 28.853” with a 251 resolution
An obviously bias or at least slanted comparison of the free and slave states of the 1850's, in the wake of the Missouri Compromise repeal. It has the usual free states are one color, slave states another color, and territories a third color, but scattered around the map are charts with information which mostly comes from the 1850 census and 1852 election. These charts contain information that blows my skirt up, stuff I've wondered about but not enough to go down that rabbit hole, taking forever just to find where to look for each nugget. I mean stuff like how many newspapers, libraries, miles of canals and RR tracks.
Your mileage may vary so I'll understand if I'm not nominated for a Nobel prize.





A couple things in the section on the house and senate I had to retype but I believe are accurate. 

Last edited by xoxoxoBruce (8/03/2021 9:36 pm)


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11/05/2021 7:10 am  #3


Re: Maps with Politics

Map with economies:


If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis Brandeis
 

12/06/2021 12:16 pm  #4


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12/07/2021 6:58 am  #5


Re: Maps with Politics

It's a small world after all. (sorry about your ear worm)


If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis Brandeis
 

12/07/2021 12:38 pm  #6


Re: Maps with Politics

That is a great map of the world with its centuries old misconceptions exposed.
Here is another one of  islands from the same source.
Java is the most densely populated.
The square kilometer on which I live has under a hundred people.  Nearby there are a thousands with none. 

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-100-worlds-biggest-islands/

 

12/09/2021 11:19 pm  #7


Re: Maps with Politics

Hmm, Japan(Honshu) is bigger than Great Britain, I didn't know that. Would have definitely lost the bet.


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12/11/2021 6:00 am  #8


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The big island of Hawaii is much smaller than I was thinking.  I guess in my mind, I was always comparing it to the other Hawaiian islands and that made it seem big.  I remember spending most of a day driving from the eastern side to the western side, but must have been in vacation mode and stopped a lot.

 

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