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mf wrote:
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Green Habit wrote:This should start it clean:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013 ... z-map.html

I just did this and it absolutely nailed it. Pretty interesting.
I live in Canada not far from the Maine border and it pretty much nailed it for me as well.
Yeah, mine ended up pretty firmly in the northeast. My wife pronounces crayon as "crown," and I was happy to find it on this quiz because I thought she was the only one.
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From a pure visual point, my first thought is that Boise sure is gobbling up the population from surrounding counties in Idaho and Oregon. :thumbsup:

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Green Habit wrote:From a pure visual point, my first thought is that Boise sure is gobbling up the population from surrounding counties in Idaho and Oregon. :thumbsup:

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i hereby dub this migratory trend 'the mcparadigm effect.'
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Alex wrote:
Green Habit wrote:From a pure visual point, my first thought is that Boise sure is gobbling up the population from surrounding counties in Idaho and Oregon. :thumbsup:

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i hereby dub this migratory trend 'the mcparadigm effect.'
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i never noticed before what large shorts those were
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New Found Glory chic
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theplatypus wrote:
Alex wrote:
Green Habit wrote:From a pure visual point, my first thought is that Boise sure is gobbling up the population from surrounding counties in Idaho and Oregon. :thumbsup:

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i hereby dub this migratory trend 'the mcparadigm effect.'
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i can only assume he's been traversing the plains states interstate system and knocking on peoples' doors to share his assessment of various action/sci-fi movie trailers
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Alex wrote:
theplatypus wrote:
Alex wrote:
Green Habit wrote:From a pure visual point, my first thought is that Boise sure is gobbling up the population from surrounding counties in Idaho and Oregon. :thumbsup:

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i hereby dub this migratory trend 'the mcparadigm effect.'
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i can only assume he's been traversing the plains states interstate system and knocking on peoples' doors to share his assessment of various action/sci-fi movie trailers
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Madagascar needs to get with it.
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By the time I glance down to correlate a shade to a percentage, six years have passed by me.
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McParadigm wrote:Image

By the time I glance down to correlate a shade to a percentage, six years have passed by me.
welcome to the story of my adulthood :/
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In February of last year the Williams Institute at the University of California Los Angeles used census data to calculate the percentage of each state's population that identifies as gay:

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where's lament?
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politicians.
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what?
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Speak up if you've heard of any of the towns colored in red:

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Green Habit wrote:Speak up if you've heard of any of the towns colored in red:

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#1 - That was the most confusing map I've ever seen, until I saw the image name in the quote string. Liberal vs. Conservative it appears
#2 - We've done work in at least three of the red towns.

Also, as an added analysis - I imagine the overall US map showing conservative counties pretty well lines up with the "No One Lives Here" map above.
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