[CivicAccess-discuss] Free US Census data leads to analysis of Electoral results!

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

In what way do you want to advance this discussion?

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On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Ilona Dougherty <ilona at apathyisboring.com>wrote:

> Tracey,
> Thanks for your thoughts on this. This kind of demographic breakdown would
> be very useful for groups like ours....
> I am curious as to what is the best way to continue / advance this
> discussion......it is certainly a critical one.
>
> Ilona
>
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> On 8-Nov-08, at 11:07 AM, Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:
>
> Did anyone notice that during the Canadian elections there were few if any
> maps on the Tele Screen?
>
> There were no magic pyramid charts with bars with a demographic group
> marked on it and associated to each electoral district and a tap on the
> board yielding a pop out pie chart?
>
> Has anyone seen in the private media the breakdown of the Canadian vote by
> electoral district and a discussion of who lives there?
>
> Have you noticed the silences in blogs about organizing and stategizing
> around certain demographic groups, the pattern of the vote and etc.?
>
> Have you read in Canada about the anglophone vote, Haitian vote, Chinese
> vote, aboriginal vote, eastern European vote, youth vote, poor vote, rich
> vote, senior's vote, womyn's vote, men's vote, etc.?
>
> Well we cannot even imagine having that conversation because our public
> data are locked up in the deep lurkium dbases of Statistics Canada, while
> our public electoral maps are locked up, funny, also in the same dbase, and
> the key to all of these are the Cost Recovery Price!
>
> How are we to imagine our country in all its diversity if we are not even
> allowed to make pictures that tell us part of our story?  These last two
> elections - back to back - made obvious the real cost to locked up data - a
> collective national ignorance!
>
> I have been reading blogs about Proposition 8 (same sex marriage) vote in
> the US, the demographic breakdown of those results, and was drooling over
> the visuals i watched on election night.  Seems to me, the data, the
> infrastructure and the pictures can help us have a conversation about
> sameness and differences.  Canada however remains silent!
>
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