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withak posted:Those red ones located in the middle of nowhere must have some interesting outliers. I recognize the one in Iowa as Dallas County. Along with the state government there's a number of finance, insurance, and agribusiness companies with headquarters or significant operations in Des Moines, which is adjacent Polk County. High-earning people who work in Des Moines tend to commute in from Urbandale and West Des Moines, which are in Dallas County. Low-income people stay closer to their jobs in Des Moines proper, and then the rest of Dallas County is rural, so the median income is inflated. I'd guess the same kind of thing for the other counties you're looking at. made of bees posted:I know I've seen another 'shrinking Israel' map, which for some reason skipped from 1917 to 1967 or something like that. Now that we have the map here, it's also worth noting that they skip from 1982 to 2000 so as to omit the occupation of southern Lebanon.
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Poor Alameda county needs to figure out how to get in on that sweet sweet Bay Area cash.
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Spoeank posted:Poor Alameda county needs to figure out how to get in on that sweet sweet Bay Area cash. It's not that it isn't in on the sweet sweet cash, it's that Marin, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties are extra wealthy. SF isn't really an apples-to-apples comparison though, seeing as it's a city-county rather than a normal giant sized county with multiple municipalities. But I am kind of surprised that Contra Costa county is among the 100 most wealthy while Alameda isn't.
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Jul 22, 2014 05:22
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Can that county in western North Dakota be basically summed up as "fracking boom"?
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Jul 22, 2014 05:30
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Can that county in western North Dakota be basically summed up as "fracking boom"? http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/real-estate/average-rent-williston-n-tops-costs-nyc-article-1.1617187
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Williamson County (the red one in Central Texas) is baffling to me. It's just a giant suburb.
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Jul 22, 2014 05:49
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Badger of Basra posted:Williamson County (the red one in Central Texas) is baffling to me. It's just a giant suburb. Probably due to this.
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Rah! posted:It's not that it isn't in on the sweet sweet cash, it's that Marin, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties are extra wealthy. SF isn't really an apples-to-apples comparison though, seeing as it's a city-county rather than a normal giant sized county with multiple municipalities. But I am kind of surprised that Contra Costa county is among the 100 most wealthy while Alameda isn't. This is really surprising to me, as someone who's just moved to Contra Costa from Alameda. If the county is so rich, how come county workers in Contra Costa get paid so much less than in Alameda County? I guess it really comes down to how the voters swing?
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Badger of Basra posted:Williamson County (the red one in Central Texas) is baffling to me. It's just a giant suburb. At a glance, it looks like most of the red counties are giant suburbs.
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Jul 22, 2014 06:09
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The red county in Michigan is just north of me, and I can never figure out how on earth it's supposed to be one of the richest counties in America. The towns aren't abandoned husks of former industrial majesty, as opposed to other areas in the state, but it's not like the county's heaving with mansions either.
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Jul 22, 2014 06:28
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Well considering the Median Household Income for the county is 67.4k I'm guessing it's a few rich people who live out on big estates.
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Jul 22, 2014 07:20
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DrSunshine posted:This is really surprising to me, as someone who's just moved to Contra Costa from Alameda. If the county is so rich, how come county workers in Contra Costa get paid so much less than in Alameda County? I guess it really comes down to how the voters swing? How is that at all contradictory? Richer people are going to be more likely to vote to cut the wages of civil servants, naturally.
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Jul 22, 2014 07:46
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Mister Adequate posted:The Incredible Shrinking Israel? 
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What the hell is up with Monroe County in Southern Illinois? I even live in St. Louis and I still had to look it up on Wikipedia because I couldn't even think of its name. It matters so little, that I can only vaguely recall the name from hearing it spoken during breaking tornado watches. Wikipedia's data for demographics and income don't make it stand out, either.
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Would those blue counties in South Dakota be Reservations? Edit: looks like they are: 
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Jul 22, 2014 09:38
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Yep. The one farthest west is Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, which is (I think) the poorest county in the entire country.
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Apparently Albania and Montenegro are Buddhist 
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Jul 22, 2014 09:52
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Actually Montenegro is still attached to Serbia in that map and Albania just has a diagonal line going through it to denote that it is Islamic.
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sparatuvs posted:Apparently Albania and Montenegro are Buddhist Nope, there's no Montenegro on that map - that's an Islamic diagonal through Albania. E;F,B
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Jul 22, 2014 09:55
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I'm sure the Uyghurs will be fine with being labeled "Sinic".
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sparatuvs posted:Apparently Albania and Montenegro are Buddhist Guyana is a mess.
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Proposition Joe posted:Actually Montenegro is still attached to Serbia in that map and Albania just has a diagonal line going through it to denote that it is Islamic. You're right, but is this map say that Guyana is Hindu? ass struggle fucked around with this message at 10:41 on Jul 22, 2014 |
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Jul 22, 2014 10:38
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sparatuvs posted:You're right, but is this map say that Guyana is Hindu?
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sparatuvs posted:Apparently Albania and Montenegro are Buddhist Apparently all of sub-saharan Africa believes in the African religion instead of being overwhelmingly...uh...I guess "Western" based on this map? Wait is this even a religion map?
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sparatuvs posted:Apparently Albania and Montenegro are Buddhist Hm yes spain has more in common religiously with the UK than it does Latin America. 
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DarkCrawler posted:Apparently all of sub-saharan Africa believes in the African religion instead of being overwhelmingly...uh...I guess "Western" based on this map?
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A Buttery Pastry posted:I think it's a "civilization" map. Not enough death robots
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A Buttery Pastry posted:I think it's a "civilization" map. What the gently caress is going on in the philipines then 
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reignonyourparade posted:What the gently caress is going on in the philipines then It's both western and sinic. And why is Albania Islamic and Bosnia isn't?
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Jul 22, 2014 11:15
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The most relevant question is what the hell they were thinking mixing colors and hatching.
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Jul 22, 2014 11:19
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That's a map of civilizations according to Samuel Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations."
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I like that they took care to erase the three pixels that would've marked Israel as Islamic but just ended up making it Buddhist instead.
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Good job on making all of Bosnia Orthodox. Why not choose the majority religion?
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Peanut President posted:Well considering the Median Household Income for the county is 67.4k I'm guessing it's a few rich people who live out on big estates. I would've figured that alone wouldn't do it, since there's also a fair number of poor-as-poo poo households scattered everywhere. The county east of it, Oakland, seemed liked a more likely candidate for rich-as-gently caress county, and in fact despite having a lower median household income than Livingston County it has a higher median income per family.
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mcustic posted:Good job on making all of Bosnia Orthodox. Why not choose the majority religion? It is supposed to show what type of "civilization" they have, I guess Bosnia is more "Greek" then "Arab" so it can't be Islamic. Although I wouldn't walk around Sarajevo saying that. I'm just happy the Caspian Sea is Buddhist.
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sparatuvs posted:It is supposed to show what type of "civilization" they have, I guess Bosnia is more "Greek" then "Arab" so it can't be Islamic. Although I wouldn't walk around Sarajevo saying that. Well, I also wouldn't walk around Sarajevo saying that it's "Arab" 
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Disco Infiva posted:Well, I also wouldn't walk around Sarajevo saying that it's "Arab" It's almost as if Huntington's whole model is a grotesque simplification of real-world cultural diversity! Who would have guessed?
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DSPaul posted:It's almost as if Huntington's whole model is a grotesque simplification of real-world cultural diversity! Who would have guessed? Yeah, I know that. My response was a facetious comment on sparatuvs saying more "Greek" than "Arab" instead of more "Greek" than "Turkish".
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sparatuvs posted:It is supposed to show what type of "civilization" they have, I guess Bosnia is more "Greek" then "Arab" so it can't be Islamic. Although I wouldn't walk around Sarajevo saying that. what background feats do they get
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Ofaloaf posted:The red county in Michigan is just north of me, and I can never figure out how on earth it's supposed to be one of the richest counties in America. The towns aren't abandoned husks of former industrial majesty, as opposed to other areas in the state, but it's not like the county's heaving with mansions either. Auto industry employees from GM, Ford, Chrysler, and the suppliers based in Novi/Wixom, as well as farmers. Farmers often have high net worth's even if their personal spending is low.
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