“In general, the most politically intolerant Americans, according to the analysis, tend to be whiter, more highly educated, older, more urban.”https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/03/us-counties-vary-their-degree-partisan-prejudice/583072/ …
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Or to put it another way, if the variation across state borders isn't due to bad data (which I suspect), it's the most interesting thing on that graph.
They used a poll of 2000 people to build a model for ~3000 counties. Which may be possible to do well, in principle, but only if done very carefully. I wouldn't take this visualization seriously without a lot of study of methodology. These paragraphs are far from reassuring:pic.twitter.com/hiJbDob8V8
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More methods details https://blog.predictwise.com/2019/03/the-atlantics-the-geography-of-partisan-prejudice-method-addendum/ … "we do suspect some of the sharp state differences can be artifacts of how party data is collected at the state level. Counter argument? We only run into these differences in 3 out of 50 states ..."
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