Chapter 15.5
Composition and behavior in county change
Planned This chapter has not been written. It is listed so the book shows its full scope.
The question
How much of county-level change since 2000 is composition and how much is behavior within groups?
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)
county-returnscounty-demographics
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 XV, Place and opinion, the political map. Its unit of analysis is places. See how the book treats evidence.