(Jonah helped me crunch some numbers about the vote using public data in California.)
California was slightly in favor of the bailout by votes: 29 to 24.
I mapped House votes today (aye/nay the bailout) to congressional district to zipcode to average price of houses in each zipcode. (I have price data for about 80% of zipcodes from dqnews.)
Ayes: median house: $489k, average house: $540k, stdev of prices: $247k
Nays: median house: $478k, average house: $483k, stdev of prices: $173k
From this we can't conclude much, except that the super-rich regions voted for the bailout, and everybody else was split.
Data sources:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laland/2008/09/how-they-voted.html
http://www.dqnews.com/
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cd109th/CA/zcta_c9_06.txt
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cgi-bin/newseek.cgi?site=ctc&state=ca
You should consider adding whether or not the congressman is up for re-election in November. I think you'll see some trends in those results.
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