Abbeville

Acadia

Accomack

Adair

Adams

Addison

Adjuntas

Aguada

Aguadilla

Aguas Buenas

Aibonito

Aiken

Aitkin

Alachua

Alamance

Alameda

Alamosa

Albany

Albemarle

Alcona

Alcorn

Aleutians East Borough

Aleutians West Census Area

Alexander

Alexandria City

Alfalfa

Alger

Allamakee

Allegan

Allegany

Alleghany

Allegheny

Allen

Allendale

Alpena

Alpine

Amador

Amelia

Amherst

Amite

Añasco

Anchorage Municipality

Anderson

Andrew

Andrews

Androscoggin

Angelina

Anne Arundel

Anoka

Anson

Antelope

Antrim

Apache

Appanoose

Appling

Appomattox

Aransas

Arapahoe

Archer

Archuleta

Arecibo

Arenac

Arkansas

Arlington

Armstrong

Aroostook

Arroyo

Arthur

Ascension

Ashe

Ashland

None

<p>A map shows the percentage of the African American population in the U.S. States like Mississippi and Georgia have the highest percentage (dark blue). States such as Montana and Wyoming show the lowest percentage (lighter blue).</p>

<p>African American population as a percentage of the total U.S. population, by county</p>

US Counties

North America

U.S. Census Bureau

African American Population

Percent

The 2008 presidential election in the United States pitted Republican John McCain against Democrat Barack Obama. This layer portrays the popular vote results at the county and county-equivalent level. The map portrays the winner of the popular vote while data probing, placing the mouse over a county, displays the percentage of the vote for each candidate and the total number of votes cast. In the 2008 election, Mr. Obama won most of the counties containing major urban centers. He also won much of California, coastal Washington and Oregon, northern New Mexico, Central Colorado, much of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and northern Illinois. He also won southern Texas, the counties along the southern Mississippi River, a zone extending from central Mississippi through central Alabama, South Carolina and eastern North Carolina. He also won most of the counties on the eastern seaboard from Washington and Baltimore northeast through New England. Mr. McCain won most of the interior of the country outside of those areas previously mentioned. Mr. McCain won the Alaskan municipalities while Mr. Obama won the counties of Hawaii.

Percentage of the popular vote by county that went to John McCain versus Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election

Data.gov

U.S. Presidential Election: Popular Vote by County, 2008

Australia

Fiji

New Zealand

Papua New Guinea

Samoa

Australia & Oceania

Barbados

Cuba

Dominican Republic

Haiti

Jamaica

St. Lucia

St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Trinidad and Tobago

Caribbean

Afghanistan

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

Tajikistan

Turkmenistan

Uzbekistan

Central Asia

China

Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

Japan

Mongolia

Nepal

South Korea

East Asia

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Georgia

Russia

Eurasia

Albania

Austria

Belarus

Belgium

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Croatia

Cyprus

Czechia

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

Ireland

Italy

Latvia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Malta

Moldova

Montenegro

Netherlands

Northern Macedonia

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Serbia

Slovakia

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Ukraine

United Kingdom

Europe

Argentina

Belize

Bolivia

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

Costa Rica

Ecuador

El Salvador

Guatemala

Guyana

Honduras

Nicaragua

Panama

Paraguay

Peru

Suriname

Uruguay

Venezuela

Latin America

Mauritania

Mauritius

São Tomé and Príncipe

Tonga

Vanuatu

Canada

Mexico

United States

Bangladesh

Bhutan

India

Maldives

Pakistan

Sri Lanka

South Asia

Brunei

Cambodia

Indonesia

Laos

Malaysia

Myanmar

Philippines

Singapore

Thailand

Southeast Asia

African American Population				Gender Development Index (GDI)			Foreign Born Population			Ocean Climate Zones
Class	Rank	Percent	U.S. Presidential Election: Popular Vote by County, 2008	Class	Rank	Value	Class	Rank	Percent	Equatorial	Tropical	Subtropical	Temperate	Subpolar












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