Is Your State An All-Time Red State Or An All-Time Blue State?

Is Your State An All-Time Red State Or An All-Time Blue State?

I went over to Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections and got the Electoral College data for all the elections from 1856 (when the Republican first fielded a candidate) to 2004. Then I put that data into a spreadsheet and added up the votes to see which states were net Republican (red) and which were net Democratic (blue).

Download electoralcollegetable.htm

Comments

[Tom McMahon]

It's more interesting than meaningful, to be sure.

[Matthew]

This doesn't quite take into effect the split of the Republican Party during Taft and Theodore Roosevelt's attempts for second election...as well as the fact that Republican and Democratic values have changed over time...meanings have almost flip flopped from the time that the terms were first used in our democratic system. Hmm. Great compilations, though.