Tag: choropleth

  • Hispanic Growth in the Plains

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    Brendan Barry
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    There is a scene in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica where with the human population almost extinct, one character comments on the romances of two others by saying “they better start having babies”. The demographics of the United States are changing. Not that they were not changing prior to recent years; Native American populations were reduced…

  • The Country’s Most Violent States

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    Brendan Barry
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    Do you live in a horribly violent and crime-afflicted state? Do you want to know? Well there’s a map for that. From the Guardian, here we have a familiar choropleth that colours each state based on where it falls into the range from most peaceful, Maine and Vermont, to the the most violent, Louisiana and Tennessee.…