Type of Document	Thesis
Author	McEwen, John Winsor
URN	etd-12102009-163912
Title	The Tallahassee Metropolitan Statistical Area: An Exception on the Electoral Landscape of North Florida
Degree	Master of Science
Department	Geography, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Philip E. Steinberg Committee Chair Lisa Jordan Committee Member Mark W. Horner Committee Member
Keywords	Tallahassee MSA North Florida Electoral Landscape
Date of Defense	2009-11-30
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract The South is a cultural region known for its political, religious and social conservatism. In Florida, this region fully encompasses 27 counties from Northeast Florida to Florida’s western border. This region of the state, known as North Florida, generally exhibits common characteristics of the South regarding levels of adherence to fundamentalist Christianity and political conservatism and, in addition, also supported the Republican presidential candidate in 2000. The exception in North Florida is the Tallahassee Metropolitan Statistical Area which is comprised of the counties of Gadsden, Leon, Jefferson and Wakulla. The Tallahassee MSA supported the Democratic candidate in the 2000 presidential election. By comparing descriptive statistics as well as statistical models and maps, this paper explores that anomaly. In addition to studying an anomaly on the electoral landscape of North Florida, this paper includes a brief discussion of the most appropriate way to study this sort of political geography in terms of unit of analysis and scale. The goal is to achieve the optimal unit of analysis in political geography – the individual voter.
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