Reveilled posted:

Source

point of return posted:

A lot of the Japanese cars are actually manufactured in the Southeast.

platedlizard posted:

In the US disabled children have the right to go to a public school and be educated, it's a requirement if a school wants federal funding. Sure it's not in the Constitution of the United States, but does it have to be? That map makes no sense at all.

childrenschances.org posted:

Why consider constitutions?

Among the tools that governments use to regulate human rights are national and sub-national legislation, targeted programs and policies, and national constitutions. Most of the maps in Children’s Chances are based on national policies and laws such as whether schools are free, and whether parents can take leave for children’s health needs. The implications of these policies, if implemented and enforced properly, are clear.

Constitutions typically outline a broader set of rights for which implementation mechanisms are less clear. They often need to be translated into laws and policies to have a widespread impact on citizens’ lives, however:

Constitutions are fundamental building blocks of a nation’s government and laws. As such, they can play an important role in establishing values and rights that may be more equitable and progressive than prevailing social norms.
Constitutions are particularly difficult to repeal or amend. Their commitments remain relatively stable and permanent even as different political parties assume power, which can help guard against attempts by governments to retreat from or weaken national human rights guarantees.
Constitutions are typically the highest laws of a country, which means that they can be used to overturn formal legislation and policies, as well as customary and religious laws, that violate human rights.
Constitutions often contain mechanisms for the legal enforcement of citizens’ rights. In countries around the world, such provisions have been used successfully to combat discrimination and hold governments accountable to their constitutional commitments.

For these reasons, we consider it important to provide information on countries’ constitutional provisions in addition to the commitments outlined in policies and legislation.

Peanut President posted:

Thanks to union busting by the states, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to make subarus in america than it is in china.

Ras Het posted:

Countdown to that one bloke popping by to make miniscule corrections to the Breton part.

HighClassSwankyTime posted:

And to add pictures of vandalized roadsigns

Soviet Commubot posted:

A map of US counties by NFL team allegiance (gathered from Facebook). I think this was done the last year the Steelers won the Superbowl, so that would explain the pockets of Steelers fans around the country. I'm really interested in why New Orleans is so popular so far east and what's up with the random things like that county in Florida where people are either Giants or Bears fans.

Soviet Commubot posted:

A map of US counties by NFL team allegiance (gathered from Facebook). I think this was done the last year the Steelers won the Superbowl, so that would explain the pockets of Steelers fans around the country. I'm really interested in why New Orleans is so popular so far east and what's up with the random things like that county in Florida where people are either Giants or Bears fans.

BIG HORNY COW posted:

I am genuinely shocked the #1 in Alaska isn't a Subaru.

Konstantin posted:

The Carolinas are also strange, I know the Panthers are bad but they still shouldn't be losing a huge chunk of their "home" territory to the Steelers and Cowboys. Is there really that much of a divide between eastern and western North Carolina or between North and South Carolina?

Peanut President posted:

Thanks to union busting by the states, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to make subarus in america than it is in china.

GreenCard78 posted:

It's probably low interest in football (Panthers suck) coupled with Pittsburg and Dallas being big "export teams." Dallas is "America's Team." Both teams also had years in the past when they were doing well, it wouldn't surprise me if those who grew up during the Pittsburg early 80s dynasty became big fans and passed it on to their kids. You may find in a decade or two that those who have gotten into football over the past few years have higher rates of Patriots fans because they've done so well over the last decade or so.

Amarkov posted:

Why is the bottom bracket wider than the top bracket

Soviet Commubot posted:

Real hurthling! posted:

Hah the jets have exactly 1 loyal county.

PrinceRandom posted:

I wish for the life of me I could remember where I found this, as I was just GIS'ing for some non-related Agricultural Productivity Maps.

i poo poo trains posted:

What's the source for this? It's obviously generalized but it seems pretty arbitrary that in the US everything south of the Mason-Dixon line is the most hosed they could be while everything north wins the biggest they possibly could.

i poo poo trains posted:

What's the source for this? It's obviously generalized but it seems pretty arbitrary that in the US everything south of the Mason-Dixon line is the most hosed they could be while everything north wins the biggest they possibly could.

texaholic posted:

Nations that observe birthright citizenship, I had no idea this was mainly an Americas thing.

Bishop Rodan posted:

Yeah, jus soli is one of the few things that American immigration law does right, which makes it more the more hilarious that you have racists trying to get rid of it to prevent those dang ILLEGAL ALIENS from plopping out anchor babies.


I really wish European countries would implement it. I just find it completely ridiculous that someone who was born in Britain (or any country) and has spent his entire life there is not considered a citizen.

Now to give this post content, here's a map:

DarkCrawler posted:

It's the state animal, isn't it?

Bishop Rodan posted:

Bishop Rodan posted:

Yeah, jus soli is one of the few things that American immigration law does right, which makes it more the more hilarious that you have racists trying to get rid of it to prevent those dang ILLEGAL ALIENS from plopping out anchor babies.


I really wish European countries would implement it. I just find it completely ridiculous that someone who was born in Britain (or any country) and has spent his entire life there is not considered a citizen.

Bishop Rodan posted:

Konstantin posted:

A lot of European countries repealed it for just that reason, and the main reason why the US still has it is that it is in our Constitution. If it wasn't, you could bet that the far-right would be pushing to repeal it as quickly as possible.

Bishop Rodan posted:

Now to give this post content, here's a map:

i poo poo trains posted:

What's the source for this? It's obviously generalized but it seems pretty arbitrary that in the US everything south of the Mason-Dixon line is the most hosed they could be while everything north wins the biggest they possibly could.

texaholic posted:

Nations that observe birthright citizenship, I had no idea this was mainly an Americas thing.

King Hong Kong posted:

This map is a wonderful illustration of how the experience of European colonization in the Americas - in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries - created a very different notion of citizenship than the closest medieval and early modern equivalents to "citizenship" in Europe as well as the subsequent notions of citizenship in Europe and the world.

Vegetable posted:

Why haven't the Asian and African former colonies done the same jus soli thing though? I don't think the map shows all that much except Americans are ballers for birthright citizenship.