Political Cartograms: It's Hip to be Square

Here, pick one:

Cartograms typically make some point by altering the size of states or countries. Equal-area cartograms do this radically: make them all the same!

These fascinate me because they’re discrete, like chess. UT/NV, or NV/UT?

And you'd think the tricky part is the Tiney Niney, from DC to NH, but no it's the Broad Squad, KY-VA-TN-NC, for being so unsquare.

So above it's the New York Times on the left and me on the right. In 2013 mine was better; this time I'm not so sure. I got cute and did VA-WV, but they (like last time) have WI boopin' out the topside. (Plus they omitted the territories. Bad lefties!)

Beware; I've made these since 1999 and in my rabbit's hole are many mansions. If it were not so I would not have prepared this spreadsheet for you.

Welcome new readers! October is political map-charts. Adam Liptak, "Supreme Court Bolsters Gay Marriage With Two Major Rulings," New York Times, 26 June 2013. Robert Wellman Campbell, "An open letter to the New York Times Graphics Desk," Zoombackbaby.com, 4 July 2013. Robert Wellman Campbell, "Political Cartograms: It's Hip to be Square," RSS Longa, 17 October 2024, PD via CC0 1.0.