ABSTRACT
Negroes have earned a reputation for voting en bloc, perhaps more solidly than any other large minority group and there has been a rapid increase in the total numbers of Negroes voting but mainly because of increasing political consciousness among the nation's Negroes. This chapter examines the impact of Negro voting on the electoral geography of Flint, Michigan, a Northern industrial city whose population growth has resulted in large part from Negro migration. The growth of the Negro population in Flint, similar to many other Northern cities, was part of a more general population increase which resulted from the expansion of heavy industry. The chapter argues that the electoral maps yield important information about the changing distribution of Flint's Negro population, and that such maps can, therefore, be of considerable value to human geographers in general. Both American and French studies in electoral geography have made liberal use of cartographic comparison, and the technique has met with conspicuous success.
