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This video is a demonstration of the techniques I have been employing to digitize the results of the 1968 US Presidential Election in Texas by precinct. This video features Grayson County, Texas, an exurban county north of Dallas, home to the towns of Sherman and Denison.

While there are ways to use ArcGIS to perform many of these digitization steps automatically, I find the cleanup required to produce them to not be worth the loss of quality and multiplied file sizes. As such, all of the digitization steps are done manually in ArcGIS. I may make a video in the future diving deeper into how I came across this data and how I am using it.

The maps used in the video come from the book "Texas Precinct Votes '68" by V. Lance Tarrance Jr. Special thanks to the SMU Libraries staff for their high quality scans of the pages of the book.

The background music is "Mystic March (Louie)" from Pikmin 2.