This paper investigates a case of spurious statistical relationships influencing theory. Our work serves to emphasize the importance to political discourse of using appropriate statistical tools. We expand upon an earlier study of regional support for the Democratic Progressive Party(DPP)in Taiwan by including fixed effects analysis. The original paper corroborated the theory of Trubowitz(1996)by finding that geographic political support followed local economic interests. We find that after considering regional fixed effects the original relationship no longer holds. Instead, regional factors simultaneously influence economic structure and political leanings.