I’m really happy to share a wonderful guest post today by Kelsey Kaszas. Kelsey got onto my radar when The Other Team was just starting out and we discovered that we had mutual friends.

Kelsey has made a map series about the financial contributions to the prop 8 campaign in 2008. The extent of detail she has included in this report is quite amazing. Like myself, Kelsey will be graduating this June and will work as a spatial data analyst for Environmental Systems Research Institute. Without much further ado, please enjoy and take it away Kelsey!

In 2008, Proposition 8 changed the California state constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage but did you know that more in-state donations were made by those opposed to the ban? Prop 8 still passed by over a half million votes. These maps were created to draw a comparison between donations and votes to “no on 8″ (oppose ban) and to “yes on 8″ (support ban). The data comes from public financial records submitted to the California Secretary of State.

The first map in the series shows the spatial distribution of donations for “no on 8″ (oppose ban) in California by zipcode. The heights are based on total dollar amount and darker colors indicate a higher number of contributors. The subset maps compare donations in Northern and Southern California. Seven out of the top ten counties with the highest amount of pro-gay marriage donations came from Northern California. The county with the highest total donation and largest number of contributors to “no on 8” was Los Angeles. Interestingly, Los Angeles County voted for “yes on 8″ (support ban) by a mere 0.20%.

Read more at: http://www.theotherteam.com/prop-8-who-donated-the-most/

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