Under Construction
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Sujet : La construction de l'hôtel de Salm à Paris
Auteur : Anonyme
Date : 19e siècle
Lieu : Paris, Musée Carnavalet


Understanding History:
Geographic Information Systems
historical geography

economic geography

cultural geography       thearda.com

social geography

input-output analysis and geography:
institutional networks (the geography of flows {personnel, materiel, money, semiotics})
Supply chain management (Wiki)
 

time geography


govtrack.us  This site accesses Congressional voting data, and maps every vote on every bill and motion.  A critical resource.

A Cultural Geography of the United States and Canada: Map Gallery.  This is a great site, and should be consulted regularly.

Religious Congregations & Membership, 2000 Glenmary Research Center

U. S. Map Collection    Geology.com

David Leip's Atlas of U. S. Presidential Elections  another great site
 White population: key subgroups (Pew, thearda.com)

Evangelical Protestants, Mainline Protestants, and Catholics (Boyer)


2008 Presidential Election, by state

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from Religious Congregations & Membership, 2000 Glenmary Research Center

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from Religious Congregations & Membership, 2000 Glenmary Research Center
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Thnis map and the one below are critical to following politics.		 rt

from WorldAtlas.com

United States by Congressional District.  House of Representatives: Partisan
Results, 2008 (New York Times)

Note the regional concentrations.  Compare this with the maps above and below.

This map of population density by county (unit of analysis) should be actively borne in mind and linked to as often as necessary whenever electoral politics, social issues, economic change, and anything else having to do with people and communities comes under scrutiny.
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The map to the right, pupulation density by metropolitan area, should be compared with the map above, popultion density by county.  These maps should be borne in mind when looking at electoral maps

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Dynamic Maps of Bank Card and Mortgage Delinquencies in the United States, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

We have been looking primarily at state and county level data
1. us census site
2. CNN/NYT/ election centers

further study of metropolitan areas ("Detroit" = Wayne+Oakland+Macomb) uses data on the
3.  county subdivision
4.  census tract
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Population Density, Detroit-Ann Arbor-Flint CMSA (Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area), by County Subdivision
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