Jacobin posted:

Goatman Sacks posted:

Supreme court said it was politically-biased gerrymandering, not racially-biased gerrymandering. And they said politically-biased gerrymandering is just find. One of the best examples is the dilution of the Austin vote with a 300 mile tract of bumfuckville land back in 2003:

Hitch posted:

I think it might be, as it's a part of the Caribbean islands. Which according to this map from Wikipedia is a part of Latin America.

Lycus posted:

Nearly all of Christian Europe being "enlightened" except for the Italian Peninsula, which is just "civilized", is curious.

PrinceRandom posted:

A fun look at population density in the Arab League, and a comparison to the continental US in land area.

Vegetable posted:

Why Venezuela?

Idiot Kicker posted:

In reference to maternity leave, the USA needs to get its poo poo together. How is that not in the FMLA?

Baloogan posted:

What about a hispanic political party?

QuoProQuid posted:

Social Mobility in the United States - Study conducted by Harvard University and California Berkeley



http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/


EDIT: Son of a bitch.

ptk posted:

The ones in Arizona and New Mexico are the Navajo and Hopi territories.

Squalid posted:

Another alternative is that the map isn't even trying to depict geography and is making some kind of symbolic point, like medieval christian maps that depict Jerusalem as the center of the world.



Yeah gonna have a hard time trying to navigate anywhere with this.

Personally I have no clue what that 1532 map is depicting, looks like China is an island? I dunno what the gently caress. But it has gone into a lot of detail with the rivers which suggests it is not designed arbitrarily.

Inu posted:

Is that map actually accurate? Does Cuba, of all places, have a McDonald's?

Craptacular posted:

Mining? Sort of like how the Bakken and Eagle Ford in the US are lit up for oil drilling.

Pakled posted:

There's one for the US already, from National Geographic.

Reveilled posted:

Are ancestry and ethnicity separate questions on the US census? I'm ancestrally Irish (3 of my 4 pairs of great-grandparents were first or second generation Irish immigrants) but since my grandparents on down were born and raised in Scotland I would put Scottish if asked my ethnicity. I figure I'd put Irish if asked my ancestry since I happen to know that but two generations from now I doubt my grandchildren will identify as Irish in any way, and that will be less than two centuries since my Great-grandparents came over. I bring this up because Appalachian doesn't seem particularly absurd to me. Wouldn't that be folks in rural areas some of whom have ancestors who arrived 400 years ago? Is there some other reason it's dumb I don't get?

Wax Dynasty posted:

What would be more interesting to me is seeing if California was more diverse than Canada, given that they have roughly equal populations.

QVC Drinking Game posted:

Unless I missed the memo those terms aren't inherently derogatory like n----r is, they're just dated. Yes, it would probably be uncool if you went around talking about "those drat Negroes" but given that the terms still exist in the names of old institutions -- the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the United Negro College Fund -- and no one's raring to change those, it's pretty clear that they're not derogatory in and of themselves.

3peat posted:

POLLUTION!!

Mu Cow posted:

Interactive map of South Africa showing race and language: http://dotmap.adrianfrith.com/

computer parts posted:

Source is from here, data is from http://factfinder2.census.gov/

And there are other explanations for higher percentages of men than women being married (women outliving their spouses, for example).

Dusseldorf posted:

Nothing kills old men better than booze.

PittTheElder posted:

The top one is WWI, the middle one is WWII, the last is the downfall of the USSR. I think the lag is because it's mostly a decline in birth rates and malnutrition of the young folks at the time that still shows up now, rather than the outright lethality of any of the events.

JosefStalinator posted:

The only problem with Greater Mexico is that 1. Most Mexican-Americans (and Mexican immigrants) would be as opposed to it as their fellow residents and 2. Almost all of them (save a handful in New Mexico and a few others scattered about) showed up well after U.S. Annexation.

No empire is as glorious, or as well named, as the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere:

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:

Not seeing the Kurds on here. That could be a problem!!!

Tommah posted:

I'm from WV and where I'm from there's a Bethlehem nearby. I also know of a Palestine.

Rhesus Pieces posted:

Connecticut has a "holy land" in the eastern end of the state, with Lebanon, Bozrah and Hebron. Bethlehem is clear on the other end of the state:



Probably every other town in the state is a knock-off of somewhere in England.

Donkwich posted:

Also Japan isn't exactly the most progressive place for race relations. There are still some bad comedy acts in Japan that use blackface and stereotypes as the joke.

Farecoal posted:

Stolen from the UK megathread.

Kainser posted:

I didn't think that India of all places would be overrepresented in the College of Cardinals.

Dusseldorf posted:

So you're saying they would get proportionally little representation because there aren't very many people to represent from them? I'm not sure why this is being cast as a bad thing.

computer parts posted:

That is a good point. I know for a fact that Boise was a refugee ten for a long time and so it has cosmopolitanism which is far beyond the regional standard (of course it's also the largest city in 300 miles and is a quarter of the state's population, but still).

A Buttery Pastry posted:

Crossing fingers for a European plane for an American president.

PittTheElder posted:

Not to mention this:



I really wonder if Ukraine isn't going to wind up splitting up sometime soon, with a big chunk of the East acceding to Russia. The atrocious way the EU is handling the recession there isn't going to do them any favours.