All:

Friend and JAGIS colleague Randy Reddick recently pointed me to the Geostat
Center at the University of Virginia. This is a fine jumpstation to a
variety of GIS and statistical resources. While it leans toward data
related to Virginia and the southern U.S. -- appropriately so, given the
university's mission -- some of the historical data is especially good and
goes back to 1960.

Also such resources as:
US Presidential Election Maps: 1860-1996
"The data utilized in the construction of these maps were made available by
the Inter-university Consortium for Political Social Research (ICPSR Study #
7757). The Data for the Candidate and Constituency Statistics of Elections
in the United States were originally collected by the Inter-university
Consortium for Political and Social Research."

As the blurb says:
"One of the Library's Electronic Centers, the Geostat Center contains most
of the spatial and social science data available through the University
Library system. Much of the information we have is digital, but we also
house the physical map collection, paper copies of many codebooks, software
manuals, and reference books pertaining to spatial and statistical analysis.
Our center has high-end personal computers with 23" monitors, equipped with
GIS and statistical software."

See http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/

-tom

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