Maps Show the Extremes of U.S. Population Density

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80. The visualizations are supposed to be showing "vote share" vs actual final electoral outcome

From the source - https://worldmapper.org/us-presidential-election-2020/

The comparison of the electoral outcome in a normal map and an equal-population projection shows, how Biden’s vote dominates the spatial distribution of the votes in the most densely populated areas that stand out in the cartogram. Almost all large urban centres, including quite a few in the mid-west, show a majority of votes for Biden. Trump’s vote share was highest in the rural areas, while his former strong showing in some urban areas and especially suburban belts around the cities that he could win over in the 2016 election largely vanished.

KY actually has more registered Democrats than Republicans - https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/elections/kentucky/2020/02/19/kentucky-elections-2020-state-has-record-number-registered-voters/4804937002/

Kentucky had 3,462,152 registered voters as of Jan. 31, according to Adams.

Democrats have a registration advantage over Republicans in Kentucky, according to the secretary of state, with 1,678,538 registered Democrats representing just over 48% of the electorate.

The 1,477,985 registered Republicans represent nearly 43% of voters, Adams said, and about 9% of voters are listed under other political affiliations.

The "problem" with KY is getting the Democrats to actually vote (they need a door-to-door canvassing like was done in GA).

Bottom line is that those visualizations are showing an "alternate view" of the electorate by comparing "urban" (concentrated) vs "rural" (spread out). The issue being to torpedo the bullshit showing a whole state as "deep red" based on their statewide electoral count or based on the circumstance that their governor and legislatures are GOP as if the state itself was ALSO unanimously GOP, feeding into the "deep red" GOP-superiority narrative. The outcomes of the states of GA and AZ illustrates how that narrative is skewed.