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Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
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The map above shows how much houses cost in 1950 in each US state in 2024 inflation adjusted US dollars, compared to what the average cost actually is in 2024.
In every single US state the increase was at at least double the rate of inflation from a low in Ohio of just 107% above inflation to a high in Alaska of 675% above inflation.
The following map shows the percentage increase above inflation:
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The map above shows the percentage of single mother run households with children there are in each state. It ranges from a low of 9% in Utah to a high of 24% in Mississippi and 29% in Washington DC.
The data comes from the 2022 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from US Census Bureau.
Here is the full data by state:
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The map above shows European countries with a smaller land area than that used for all roads and parking in the United States.
According to to Per Mile the US has an estimated 800 million parking spaces (for a total population of 335 million), or over 500 million parking space than registered vehicles.
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The map above shows a very suprising fact, only 3 countries in the world (besides the United States) have economies that are larger than California’s when measured in nominal (exchange rate) Us Dollars (USD).
Here is a full list:
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The map above shows who had a better vote margin against Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris.
This includes states they both each won and lost.
And confusingly it somewhat contradicts yesterday’s map Where did Hillary Clinton Outperform Kamala Harris and Vice Versa?.
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The map above shows where Hillary Clinton did relatively better than Kamala Harris and vice versa based on the relative share of each’s states popular vote.
States where Harris got at least 5 percentage points more of the popular vote than Clinton are coloured dark blue (5 states, NE-1, NE-2 and ME-1).
States where Clinton got at least 5 percentage points more of the popular vote than Harris are coloured dark red (none).
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In 1973, American geographer George Etzel Pearcy proposed a significant reorganization of the United States’ state boundaries, aiming to reduce the number of states from 50 to 38.
His plan sought to address issues arising from outdated borders that no longer reflected the nation’s demographic and economic realities.
Key Aspects of Pearcy’s Proposal:
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The map above shows that fertility rates (the number of children and woman can expect to have in her lifetime) have declined in all US states between 2005 and 2022.
From a tiny 0.3% decline in Louisiana to a massive 33.9% decline in Utah.
Here is the full data set (from biggest to smallest decline)