For many Americans, it feels as if the 2016 election split the country in two.
To visualize this, we took the election results
and created two new imaginary nations by slicing the country along the
sharp divide between Republican and Democratic Americas.
Trump’s America
Greater
Puget
Sound
Rolette
Cove
Spokane
Alaskan
Outpost
International Falls
Great Falls
Baxter
Island
Missoula
Lake
Minot
Helena
Connecticut
Strait
Eugene
Estuary
Portland
Sound
Boundary
Water
Augusta
Bismarck
Fargo
Standing
Rock Pond
Bozeman
Lake
Billings
Boise
Upstate
Twin Cities
Reservoir
Boston
Harbor
Teton
Tarn
Pierre
Buffalo
Bay
Sioux Falls
Casper
Ithaca
Lake
Madison
Lake
Detroit
Delta
Des Moines
Pond
Lakota
Lakes
Elko
Salt
Lake
New York
Narrows
Chicago
Sea
Reno
Reservoir
Cheyenne
Cleveland
Cove
Pittsburgh
Puddle
San
Francisco
Bay
Omaha
Indy
Puddle
Acela
Channel
D.C.
Delta
Denver
Sea
Champaign
Kettle
Kansas City
Isthmus
Cincinnati
Slough
Colorado Springs
St. Louis
Pond
Norfolk
Sound
Charleston
Great
American
Plains
Louisville
Lake
Bakersfield
Hook
Las Vegas
Harbor
Raleigh
Bay
Lake
Flagstaff
Knoxville
Los Angeles
Bay
Tulsa
Nashville
Pond
Santa Fe Sea
Amarillo
Memphis
Harbor
Wilmington
Oklahoma City
Phoenix
Columbia
Lake
San Diego
Inlet
Atlanta
Lake
Miss.
Lake
Bay of Tucson
Fort Worth
Dallas
Pond
Selma
Sea
El Paso
Bay
Jacksonville
Austin
Pond
Houston
Bay
San Antonio
Lake
By Tim Wallace/The New York Times
Lake
Disney
Laredo Gulf
Tampa
Bay
Miami
Bay
Corpus Christi
Geographically, Donald J. Trump
won most of the land area of the United States. A country consisting of
areas he won retains more than 80 percent of the nation’s counties.
While Trump country is vast, its edges have been
eroded by coastal Democrats, and it is riddled with large inland lakes
of Clinton voters who were generally concentrated in dense urban areas.
Clinton’s America
Seattle
Montana
Archipelago
Old Glacier
Gulf
Lutsen
Island
Portland
Maine
Cove
Northwest
Sea
Albany
Narrows
Coos
Bay
Minneapolis
New
England
Great Bays
Boston
Buffalo
Milwaukee
Detroit
Wyoming
Shallows
Reno
Island
Cleveland
New York
Salt Lake City
Chicago
Philadelphia
Midwest
Isles
Des Moines
Pittsburgh
San Francisco
Denver
Washington
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Norfolk
Blue Ridge
Sea
Las Vegas
Bakersfield
Bay
Great
American
Ocean
Raleigh
Nashville
Los Angeles
Albuquerque
Island
Santa Fe
Memphis
Carolina
Islands
San Diego
Maricopa
Sea
Atlanta
Mississippi
Island
Dallas
Tucson
Island
High Plains
Sea
Jackson
El Paso
Island
Georgian
Strait
Alabama
Gulf
Hawaiian
Islands
By Tim Wallace/The New York Times
Houston
San Antonio
Tampa
Isla
Grande
Miami
Hillary Clinton
overwhelmingly won the cities, like Los Angeles, Chicago and New York
City, but Mr. Trump won many of the suburbs, isolating the cities in a
sea of Republican voters.
Mrs. Clinton’s island nation has large atolls
and small island chains with liberal cores, like college towns, Native
American reservations and areas with black and Hispanic majorities.
While the land area is small, the residents here voted for Mrs. Clinton
in large enough numbers to make her the winner of the overall popular
vote.
Land Area
Clinton’s America
15% 530,000 square miles
Trump’s America
85% 3,000,000 square miles
Population
Clinton’s America
54% 174 million
Trump’s America
46% 148 million
Popular Vote
As of Wednesday, Nov. 16.
For Clinton
50.4% 61.8 million
For Trump
49.6% 60.8 million
Note: The illustrations are based on an analysis of
county-level voting data to determine where a dividing line between
areas that voted Democratic and Republican would fall.
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