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Yes, more maps.

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Because everyone loves maps.

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I have never, not once in my entire life, bought a lottery ticket.

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Those are sad numbers.

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Wow.

Texas likes their prisons.

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Trade.

It’s important.

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Mainers.

They love to hunt.

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I’ve always wanted to take an IQ test, but never have.

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For this map you’re supposed to type “Why is your state so..” and see what pops up.

I didn’t get white.

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Not sure what we’re taking so long to do, but I think I’m okay with it.

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34 thoughts on “Yes, more maps.”

  1. Thanks again for entertaining and informative maps!

    When I typed “Why is Wisconsin so” the top hits were “windy” and “drunk”.

    As for prison population, Texas and California are the most populous, so no surprises there. What’s more revealing is the proportion of the population each state imprisons. In that, Mississippi and Louisiana rank #1 and 2. Another one worth looking at is who imprisons most unequally. Wisconsin has the highest incarceration rate among Black people. New Jersey has the greatest disparity between Black and white incarceration. (Why the difference between the two? Wisconsin imprisons a larger portion of its population in general, i.e. more white people than New Jersey imprisons.)

    Living wage is a big deal if you are thinking of moving because someone offers you more pay. If you get 50% more money but it’s 75% more expensive to live, you didn’t really get a raise.

    And the IQ chart shows that Garrison Keillor was right that in Lake Wobegon, “all the children are above average”.

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      1. 1) We’re home of “The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous” (Schlitz) 2) “I’m from Milwaukee and I oughta know” (Blatz) 3) “Pabst won the ribbon in 1893”. 4) “From the land of sky blue waters” (Hamm’s) 5) “Leinenkugel’s beer ain’t just for breakfast anymore.” 5) We’re the largest consumer of brandy in the US (including half of the output of Korbel) and possibly the world. 6) A small town in Wisconsin generally has one intersection. On that intersection are three bars and a Lutheran church. The church is only open one day a week and even then you’re outta there before the Packer game. 7) It’s cold in the winter so you drink brandy to keep warm. 8) It’s hot in the summer so you drink beer to keep cool. 9) There’s nothing else to do here? 10) The main winter pastimes are playing Euchre (which requires an Old Fashioned), Sheepshead (which requires beer), and snowmobiling (which involves going from bar to bar). 11) The main summer activities are boating and fishing, which both seem to involve a lot of drinking.

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      1. re: liberal as #3. I’m mostly surprised because voting for Trump and Ron Johnson doesn’t make the state sound very liberal; not to mention what the legislature looks like. Or the fact that it imprisons a higher portion of the Black population than any other state. I guess the bar for “liberal” is pretty low these days.

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  5. I took an IQ test once (really I’ve taken hundreds in my lifetime, but) i had occasion to see my right and wrong answers that dwy, and one of my wrong answers (on the marking sheet) I was able to prove was actually right, and they had to change the answer sheet because of me. Damn fools could not even get their own qu4stion right!
    IQ is literally meaningless, if you’re having a good day your score goes up, and if you’re having a bad day your score goes up. And if you are not a born English-speaker in North America and other English speaking countries, your score will be way down — even if the test is translated into your birth language.

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      1. On that test. It was the only answer I had wrong which is why the testgiver even showed it to me. And as soon as I saw it, I knew I had it right.
        But there are many tests out there, and i have been given a wide range of IQ ratings. The tests depend so much on your age, your history, your culture, your memory, your areas of interest, etc etc etc including as I said your mood and your alertness on any given day, which is part of what makes them useless.

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  6. I love Wacky Map Weds! Texas has the most prisons because all the dark green states have the most firearms and there’s more space down here than up around those dark green areas to house the firearm related crimes, lol. I find it interesting that Indiana and North Carolina’s import partners are the Irish. In my “Why is Texas so….” I got, conservative. Of course I did, our state is a crap show of political numb nuts, and because of that, this is why Texas has the most prisons in the country.

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  7. I was IQ tested in 2nd grade. It was fun, except: I remember one answer confusing the psychologist who was administering the test. The Q was: You’re walking through a forest and see an animal in a tree… what is it? I said snake (rainforest… and had prob recently seen Jungle Book) and he really fought me on that answer. 55 yrs later, I’m still angry!

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      5. South. We’re very blue, north of Bangor is predominantly red.
        It’s a jarring difference, like two different states.
        Vermont is the same. They call theirs “The Northeast Kingdom” and it’s a separate world.

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  11. Those stats are all over the place, aren’t they? Texas has the most prisoners but one of the higher average IQs? Pennsylvania is the most haunted but people don’t buy more lottery tickets? Don’t they know how to get gambling advice from the ghosts?

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