Starter: In 2016 Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in the electoral college vote. What portion of U.S. counties did Trump win?
1.How accurate was your prediction?
2.What most surprised you about this map?
3.According to the map, which state was the bluest?
4.What question do you have about this map?
5.What is the big story this map tells?
6.Why do you think that is?
7.What is a consequence of this?
8.What are two reasons that rural voters tend to be more Republican?
9.What are two reasons that urban voters tend to be more Democratic?
10.How did Virginia vote in the presidential election?
11.How did York County vote in the 2016 presidential election?
12.Do you believe that policies coming out of the Trump White House will be beneficial to red county voters? What do you think are two of the main demographic differences between red and blue counties?
13.What do you think are two of the main policy differences between red and blue counties? What do you think are the top three things that red and blue counties agree on, politically?
14.Based on this map and your knowledge of American politics, explain why you think Trump won the election.
15.If you were to look at this map and not know anything about the population of the different counties, what assumptions would you make about the popular vote totals for the 2016 presidential election?
16.Based on this map, if you were an election adviser to the Democratic Party, what advice would you give them?
17.Based on the fact that overall, the blue counties are growing and the red counties are shrinking, what assumptions would you make about the 2020 election?
18.In this map, red=Trump and blue=Clinton. What would be other words you could accurately substitute for Trump and for Clinton, for example: red=rural; blue=urban
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