[throwaway0a5e]

There's got to be something substantially skewing the data.

Even just looking at counties I'm familiar with it doesn't pass the sniff test.

You've got the "hicks live here" county that's the same color as the "yuppies buy houses in these suburbs" county that's the same color as the "not much English gets spoken here" county and so on. And yet it's all different than the adjacent counties that happen to be across state lines that have similar demographics.