Led by Martin Lewis, this map-intensive course will explore the geography of US elections (both past and present), and challenge the suggestion that we are simply divided into a Red America and Blue America. Its really much more complicated than that.
This lecture provides an introduction to and overview of the Geography of United States Elections course.
The basic principles of political geography; the “red and blue” map of the United States; different ways of mapping U.S. presidential elections; differences in voting behavior between national elections and state and local elections; electoral geography in selected foreign countries.
In this lecture, Professor Lewis covers U.S. Presidential elections from 1789 to 1916.
In this lecture, Professor Lewis covers U.S. Presidential elections from 1920 to 1996.
In this lecture, Professor Lewis covers U.S. Presidential elections in 2000 and 2004.