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B.S. Urban and Regional Studies 2010
In the spring of 2009 I conducted research of voting trends in southeastern Pennsylvania. The research was motivated by the dramatic shift in political loyalties in the counties and Congressional districts surrounding Philadelphia. Several counties that had overwhelmingly supported Republican presidents in the 1980s (i.e. Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush) had become strongly Democratic by the 1990s. Barack Obama's victory in 2008 highlighted an impressive extension of Democratic dominance in the counties and districts of southeastern Pennsylvania. In addition to presidential elections, I also analyzed U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives elections from 1980 to 2008. I used ArcGIS to visually display these voting trends and examined demographic figures from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 U.S. Census to explain the causes of such dramatic shifts in electoral trends.
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