by Doctor Science
Delaware license plates boast that DE is “The First State”, the first to ratify the Constitution.
But that’s not what I’m talking about. I think Delaware should be the first state on the Presidential primary calendar.
Juan Cole posted about the Iowa Caucuses as the Conservative White People’s Primary, because the population of Iowa is so much whiter than the national average. He is not the first to point out that Iowa (and New Hampshire) are not necessarily the best choices for lead-off Presidential Primaries, because they’re so demographically unlike most of the country.
So I started to wonder, what state(s) *would* be good choices? I collected data and analyzed it; you can follow along in the Googledocs spreadsheet I created. I tried to do it in Tableau, but I ended up in a maze of twisty passageways and eventually gave up. If any of you can show me how to use Tableau, please chime in.