Maps of the Homeland

In this map of the continental United States, the red areas represent where women’s mortality statistics grew worse between the early 1990s and the mid-2000s, as Grace Wyler at Business Insider reports. The blue areas saw substantial improvement in that measure, green small improvement.

In this map, from Mark Newman at the University of Michigan, the redder the area, the more strongly that county voted for Mitt Romney in 2012.