Dallas & Fort Worth: The Thelma & Louise of Voting
Look at this chart of voter turnout and guess where Dallas and Fort Worth are:
If you haven’t found us, just keep looking right. We are the last two. When it comes time to vote, Dallas & Fort Worth look at each other, hold hands, and instead drive directly off a cliff.
The results are a pile of flaming rubble at the bottom of a canyon. Is this why our streets are crumbling, cops are leaving and pensions are evaporating?
Is it because nobody gives a shit?
Dallas = 6%
Chicago = 33%
Detroit = 25%
Portland = 60%
Houston even TRIPLES Dallas with 18%.
How is that even possible??
There are about 25 census tracts in Dallas where only ~1 in 1000 voting age people voted. 1.7% of people 18–34 voted.
What is it with Dallas that makes us so unengaged?
Here are some maps to see where people are and aren’t voting. This is all from an amazing Portland State study. Learn more here:
Dallas Voter Maps
Voting age population — turnout
18–34 — turnout
Desert/oasis
Turnout — median age
% unemployment
% minority
median household income
% owner occupied units
% poverty
% bachelors degree or over
We are the kid who thinks he’s too cool in middle school to do homework and ends up digging graves at the cemetery the rest of his life.
Median Age
The median age of voters in Dallas is 62, which is lower than only 4 of the 50 studied:
Palm Beach
Myrtle Beach
Las Vegas
San Antonio
The only cities with older voting populations than DFW are where people go to retire and fill in the holes our non-homework doing gravedigger is digging.
Accountability
With nobody paying attention, if City Hall fucks up they have to answer to an army of 6 sixty-two year old’s.
Vote
So….go vote Saturday and try to follow along. Just to be different. Here are the precincts:
Dallas Voting Precincts
You can look up all information here:
Other Cities Maps:
Portland
Seattle
Fort Worth
Austin
Houston
Chicago
San Antonio
Denver
Detroit
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Los Angeles
Washington DC
San Diego
New York City
Baltimore
Boston
Voter Turnout List
City — Turnout — Median Age
Portland — 59% — 46
Bradenton — 47% — 59
Palm Beach County Zone 4–46% — 63
Louisville — 45% — 55
Seattle — 44% — 50
Lexington — 42% — 52
Grand Forks — 38% -
Boulder — 34% — 54
Chicago — 33% — 53
Macon — 33% — 56
San Diego — 32% — 57
San Francisco — 32% — 52
Jacksonville — 31% — 57
San Jose — 31% — 55
Boston — 30% — 51
Columbus, OH — 30% — 51
Akron — 28% — 56
Duluth — 28% — 57
Detroit — 25% — 57
Nashville — 24% — 58
Philadelphia — 24% — 56
Denver — 23% — 59
Fort Wayne — 22% — 61
Memphis — 22% — 59
Biloxi — 21% -
Washington, DC — 20% -
Los Angeles — 19% — 59
Houston — 18% — 61
Long Beach — 18% — 56
Tallahassee — 17% — 58
Charlotte — 16% — 57
Columbus, GA — 16% — 59
St. Paul — 16% — 55
Baltimore — 15% — 56
Phoenix — 15% — 61
Aberdeen — 14% — 57
Columbia, SC — 14% — 59
New York City — 14% — 57
Wichita — 14% — 62
Austin — 13% — 52
Myrtle Beach — 13% — 64
El Paso — 12% — 59
Miami — 12% — 68
Oklahoma City — 12% — 61
Milledgeville — 11% — 61
San Antonio — 11% — 63
Palm Beach County Zone 6–10% — 60
Las Vegas — 9% — 68
State College — 9% — 58
Fort Worth — 6% — 66
Dallas — 6% — 62
