Chapter 12.3
Income and the county vote
Planned This chapter has not been written. It is listed so the book shows its full scope.
The question
Do richer counties vote more Democratic once education is held constant?
The data
- County election returnsYears: President 1868-2024 (40 elections); House and Senate 1990-2024
- County demographics panelYears: 2000-2024 (election years, interpolated between census and survey anchors)
- Cooperative Election StudyYears: 2006-2024 (every year; self-reported turnout is available in the 10 even years)
county-returnscounty-demographicsces
The scope
Places Each row of the data is a place such as a county or a neighborhood, so results describe places. They do not describe the people in them.
The chapter sits in Part XII, Demographic axes of the vote, the political map. Its unit of analysis is places. See how the book treats evidence.