Data Acquisition Log

LandArea: Land Area in Square Miles http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html

Terminology:
Year: year of data. FIPS: ?? State: State from which data came from. Land Area: in total square miles. http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html Total: total federal spending in that state. http://www.census.gov/govs/cffr/ Grants: total grant spending in that state. http://www.census.gov/govs/cffr/ Procurements: total procurement spending for that state. http://www.census.gov/govs/cffr/ CPI: consumer price index. Population: total number of people in the state of that year. http://www.census.gov/popest/archives/1990s/ rpcTotal: real per capita total federal spending in that state. rpcGrants: real per capita grants for that state. rpcProcurements: real per capita procurements for that state. ECD: electoral college votes for the democrats. ECR: electoral college votes for the republicans. ECTotal: total amount of electoral college votes for that state. TotalVote: raw number of votes cast in that election.

Margin: the margin of victory for the winning candidate of that state. Democrat: the raw total votes cast for the democratic candidate. Republican: the raw total votes cast for the republican candidate.