The width of each bar appears to be based on that state's number of electoral college votes, which is also the number in parentheses after the state's name.
But then there are three separate things represented on the diagram which look as if they're related to which way the state votes or voted: the colour of the bar (blue or red), the height of the bar (and in particular whether that height is positive or negative), and the position of the state on the x-axis. Clearly all of these are largely correlated but not completely; so clearly they're all representing three correlated but distinct things. But which? Why do some bars have positive height but are red rather than blue? What's the significance of there being a couple of red bars on the mostly-blue side of the diagram?
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The width of each bar appears to be based on that state's number of electoral college votes, which is also the number in parentheses after the state's name.
But then there are three separate things represented on the diagram which look as if they're related to which way the state votes or voted: the colour of the bar (blue or red), the height of the bar (and in particular whether that height is positive or negative), and the position of the state on the x-axis. Clearly all of these are largely correlated but not completely; so clearly they're all representing three correlated but distinct things. But which? Why do some bars have positive height but are red rather than blue? What's the significance of there being a couple of red bars on the mostly-blue side of the diagram?