{
  "alt": "Table with one row per definition. Under the chapter's definition {fact:n_dr} Democratic-voting counties have right-leaning donors and {fact:n_rl} Republican-voting counties have left-leaning donors. The Democratic-voting group is {fact:n_dr_2024} with the 2024 vote, {fact:n_dr_strict} with the stricter donor definition and {fact:n_dr_all} with all donors; the Republican-voting group is {fact:n_rl_2024}, {fact:n_rl_strict} and {fact:n_rl_all} in the same rows. With the mean of all reliable donors as the neutral point the groups are {fact:n_dr_refpool} and {fact:n_rl_refpool}, and with the median county they are {fact:n_dr_refmed} and {fact:n_rl_refmed}. The divergent count runs from {fact:def_div_lo} to {fact:def_div_hi} across the rows.",
  "caption": "The smallest count is the corner-class row, which needs a margin on both measures, and the largest is the row that takes the median county as the neutral point. Changing the donor pool, the vote year or the pool floor moves the Democratic-voting group between {fact:def_dr_lo} and {fact:def_dr_hi} counties and the Republican-voting group between {fact:def_rl_lo} and {fact:def_rl_hi}; moving the neutral point from zero to the mean of all reliable donors gives {fact:n_dr_refpool} and {fact:n_rl_refpool}. Each row gives the number of counties in each divergent group and the share of counties and of votes they hold. Each row uses its own set of counties, because a definition changes which counties reach the pool floor.",
  "data": [
    {
      "counties": 2839,
      "definition": "Chapter definition",
      "dem_right": 98,
      "divergent": 570,
      "rep_left": 472,
      "share": 20.1,
      "share_votes": 16
    },
    {
      "counties": 2432,
      "definition": "Donor pool: at least 15 distinct recipients",
      "dem_right": 75,
      "divergent": 617,
      "rep_left": 542,
      "share": 25.4,
      "share_votes": 18.3
    },
    {
      "counties": 3105,
      "definition": "Donor pool: all donors with a CFscore",
      "dem_right": 188,
      "divergent": 301,
      "rep_left": 113,
      "share": 9.7,
      "share_votes": 18.3
    },
    {
      "counties": 2835,
      "definition": "Vote year: 2024",
      "dem_right": 68,
      "divergent": 590,
      "rep_left": 522,
      "share": 20.8,
      "share_votes": 22.6
    },
    {
      "counties": 2212,
      "definition": "Pool floor: at least 75 donors per county",
      "dem_right": 62,
      "divergent": 462,
      "rep_left": 400,
      "share": 20.9,
      "share_votes": 16
    },
    {
      "counties": 2839,
      "definition": "Neutral point: mean of all donors",
      "dem_right": 240,
      "divergent": 344,
      "rep_left": 104,
      "share": 12.1,
      "share_votes": 26.9
    },
    {
      "counties": 2839,
      "definition": "Neutral point: median county",
      "dem_right": 57,
      "divergent": 1030,
      "rep_left": 973,
      "share": 36.3,
      "share_votes": 24.5
    },
    {
      "counties": 2839,
      "definition": "Divergence rule: both cut points cleared",
      "dem_right": 27,
      "divergent": 112,
      "rep_left": 85,
      "share": 3.9,
      "share_votes": 1.2
    }
  ],
  "id": "definitions",
  "notes": [
    "The 2024 row leaves out four Missouri counties (Jackson, Clay, Platte and Cass) because the 2024 returns report Kansas City separately from them.",
    "Votes are full counts. Each row counts counties once, and the share of votes is weighted by 2020 two-party votes."
  ],
  "source": "DIME public version 4.0, donors by most recent county, 1980-2024; county presidential returns, 2020 and 2024 (repaired file); donors are not weighted, counties are counted once, and the share of votes is weighted by two-party votes",
  "spec": {
    "columns": [
      {
        "key": "definition",
        "label": "Definition"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "thousands": true
        },
        "key": "divergent",
        "label": "Divergent counties"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1
        },
        "key": "share",
        "label": "Share of counties (%)"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "thousands": true
        },
        "key": "dem_right",
        "label": "Democratic vote, right-leaning donors"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "thousands": true
        },
        "key": "rep_left",
        "label": "Republican vote, left-leaning donors"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "thousands": true
        },
        "key": "counties",
        "label": "Counties"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1
        },
        "key": "share_votes",
        "label": "Share of votes (%)"
      }
    ]
  },
  "subtitle": "Counties whose donor pool leans opposite to the vote under the chapter's definition and under changes to the donor pool, the pool floor, the vote year, the neutral point of the donor scale and the divergence rule",
  "title": "The number of divergent counties runs from {fact:def_div_lo} to {fact:def_div_hi} across the definitions tested",
  "type": "table",
  "width": "wide"
}