This is an example of a cartogram map that is redrawn to show the states based off of their populations instead of acreage. The significance for redrawing the map this way is that during the 2012 Presidential Election, if one was to be looking at a typical US map the Republican Party (Red) would appear to take up majority of the states making it appear that Romney won, when it actuality the Democratic Party (Blue) won because the states in blue contain much more population than those in red. For reasons like this, Cartogram maps are drawn to help show better representations of factors such as population.
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