1 online resource (website) : maps ; digital files.
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"Launched by Dante Chinni and Prof. James Gimpel to cover the 2008 election and originally developed and hosted with the Christian Science Monitor."--About page
Contents
District types -- County types -- About your community -- About Patchwork Nation -- Archive-- In the news -- Around the nation -- County Map -- District Map -- State Map -- Community blogs -- Academic blogs.
Summary
"Patchwork Nation is a reporting project of the Jefferson Institute that aims to explore what is happening in the United States by examining different kinds of communities over time. The effort divides America's 3,141 counties into 12 community types based on certain demographic characteristics, such as income level, racial composition, employment and religion... The interactive map helps break down national data to analyze how it impacts communities. And the graphic visualization tool lets users see data charted and graphed by county, congressional district, or state. It puts the data in the hands of the user, allowing him or her to compare different data sets and explore national data county-by-county."--About page
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District types: Established wealth ; New diversity ; Wired and educated ; The shifting middle ; Young exurbs ; Christian conservative ; Booming growth ; Old diversity ; Small town America.
County types: Boom towns ; Immigrant nation ; Monied 'burbs ; Campus and careers ; Industrial metropolis ; Mormon outposts ; Emptying nests ; Military bastions ; Service worker centers ; Evangelical epicenters ; Minority central ; Tractor country.
