Chapter 14.2
The geography of donations
Planned This chapter has not been written. It is listed so the book shows its full scope.
The question
Where do campaign dollars come from, and do county donor pools show the same education and income gradients as county votes?
The data
- DIMEYears: 1979-2024 (23 election cycles)
- County demographics panelYears: 2000-2024 (election years, interpolated between census and survey anchors)
- County election returnsYears: President 1868-2024 (40 elections); House and Senate 1990-2024
dimecounty-demographicscounty-returns
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 XIV, The money map, the political map. Its unit of analysis is places. See how the book treats evidence.