{
  "alt": "County map of the contiguous United States shaded by the share of returns claiming the earned income tax credit, darkest in the Mississippi Delta, along the Rio Grande in Texas and on South Dakota reservations. Two other views shade the share of returns reporting capital gains and the swing in the two-party margin from 2016 to 2020. Across counties the EITC share correlates {fact:rc_eitc_swing} with the swing and the capital-gains share {fact:rc_cap_swing}.",
  "caption": "Counties with a higher EITC share tended to swing less toward the Democrats: the county correlation of the share with the swing is {fact:rc_eitc_swing}. High EITC shares include counties in the Mississippi Delta and Alabama's Black Belt, along the Rio Grande in Texas and on reservations in South Dakota. Each county averages the shares of its ZIP codes, weighted by their 2020 votes; the swing comes from certified county returns.",
  "data": [],
  "id": "county_map",
  "notes": [
    "Counties with no ZIP-code shares or no county demographics draw as no data, as do Alaska and Hawaii, which have no ZIP-code vote estimates. A county with a share of exactly zero in a view also draws as no data in that view, because a zero cannot be told from a small count rounded down. Values are rounded to one decimal place. A county whose shares come from one small ZIP code can show an extreme value."
  ],
  "source": "Certified county returns, 2016 and 2020; IRS Statistics of Income ZIP-code shares, tax year 2022, averaged within counties; county demographics centred on 2020; weighted by 2020 two-party votes",
  "spec": {
    "fips": "fips",
    "legendLabel": "Share of returns claiming the earned income tax credit (%)",
    "payload": "county_map.json",
    "scale": {
      "domain": [
        0,
        40
      ],
      "type": "sequential"
    },
    "tooltipKeys": [
      "earned_income_credit_share",
      "capital_gains_share",
      "swing"
    ],
    "value": "earned_income_credit_share",
    "valueFormat": {
      "digits": 0
    }
  },
  "subtitle": "Share of returns claiming the earned income tax credit by county, IRS tax year 2022, averaged from ZIP codes within the county",
  "title": "The EITC share is highest in the Mississippi Delta, Alabama's Black Belt and along the Rio Grande",
  "type": "county-map",
  "views": [
    {
      "id": "eitc",
      "label": "EITC share"
    },
    {
      "caption": "Counties with a higher capital-gains share tended to swing more toward the Democrats: the county correlation of the share with the swing is {fact:rc_cap_swing}. High shares include the Bay Area counties of Marin, San Mateo and Santa Clara, Teton County in Wyoming and Collier County in Florida, and low shares include counties in eastern Kentucky and southern West Virginia. Counties with a share of exactly zero are drawn as no data.",
      "id": "cap",
      "label": "Capital-gains share",
      "spec": {
        "legendLabel": "Share of returns reporting a net capital gain (%)",
        "scale": {
          "domain": [
            0,
            40
          ],
          "type": "sequential"
        },
        "value": "capital_gains_share"
      },
      "title": "Capital-gains shares are high in the Bay Area and Teton County and low in eastern Kentucky and southern West Virginia"
    },
    {
      "caption": "Blue counties swung toward the Democrats and red counties toward the Republicans between 2016 and 2020, from certified county returns. The largest swings toward the Republicans are in the Texas border counties, and the largest swings toward the Democrats include the outer suburbs of Atlanta and Dallas. Counties beyond the ends of the color scale, such as Starr County in Texas, take the end color.",
      "id": "swing",
      "label": "Swing, 2016 to 2020",
      "spec": {
        "legendLabel": "Change in Democratic minus Republican margin (points)",
        "scale": {
          "domain": [
            -12,
            12
          ],
          "palette": "party",
          "type": "diverging"
        },
        "value": "swing",
        "valueFormat": {
          "digits": 1,
          "signed": true
        }
      },
      "title": "Swings were largest toward the Republicans on the Texas border and toward the Democrats in Atlanta and Dallas suburbs"
    }
  ],
  "width": "full"
}