austincontrarian.com

I've finally registered www.austincontrarian.com.  It maps to my old domain, which is still active, so nothing ought to change.  It's just easier to remember.

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[Kmeson]

Congrats on the move.

Sometime ago you posted some great tables of weighted density of cities. So you have similar data by states? Someone pointed out a strong correlation between Presidential polling numbers and density and I would think that it would be enhanced using weighted density...

[AC]

I saw that. Standard density (state population/state area) is a meaningless metric for that purpose because it is so arbitrary.

I have not done a similar calculation for all 50 states. I did it for Texas, though, and got a little over 3,000 ppsm. http://www.austincontrarian.com/austincontrarian/2008/07/urban-texas.html
That reflects that most Texans live in an urban environment. Northeastern states would have much higher weighted densities. California, too.
If I were to run the regression, I'd probably run it using the percentage of urbanized population times the weighted density of the urbanized population, since I figure rural voters everywhere tend to be more conservative; you're looking for the variation in political views of the urban dwellers.

[M1EK]

And now you're part of the Best of Austin:

http://mdahmus.monkeysystems.com/blog/archives/000533.html