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Visualizing Virginia's Changing Electorate: Mapping Presidential Elections from 2000 to 2012
Conventional U.S. political maps, with their all-red and all-blue states and districts, don’t offer an accurate picture of fast-changing electoral trends, according to a long-time political analyst and a geographer who specializes in creative map-making, both professors at the University of Mary Washington. >MORE
Through the creation of the Virginia Poverty Measure, the Commonwealth joins a handful of states leading the way in more accurately measuring poverty among their citizens.