Showing posts with label geography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label geography. Show all posts
Saturday, September 12, 2020

Physical Topography (of the American West) Associated with Human Personality

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You can find the paper here . I have only read the abstract since there's a paywall. Questions: how does this correlate with the sett...
Thursday, January 9, 2020

Which States Are Americans Moving To and From, As Related to Cost of Living

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United Van Lines publishes an annual list of the move-to, move-away balance for each state. With the exception of Vermont there are no bi...
Thursday, September 20, 2018

Happiness by State in the US, 2018

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A study done by Wallethub (their image below) using their own 31-factor happiness index shows the Bad Stripe, along with a few other intere...
Thursday, August 2, 2018

Dry Counties - Roughly Track the Bad Stripe

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Above, map of dry counties in the US (Wiki.) Compare to one of many Bad Stripe maps, a map of Well-Being, below. This stripe pops out ...
Thursday, June 7, 2018

Time of Founding of Each American County

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From Reddit user JFBoyy .
Sunday, April 29, 2018

States Emerged In Places With Marginal Agriculture Potential That Benefited From Central Control

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I. More Evidence for the Argument That States Emerge When Food Production Benefits from Central Control If you looked at climate and clim...
Thursday, May 25, 2017

Per Capita Income and the Bad Stripe

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The Bad Stripe runs southwest from extreme SW Pennsylvania through West Virgina, turning westward through Kentucky and part of Tennessee, cr...
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Tepuys Are Cool

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I have long been obsessed by Mount Roraima and tepuys, and it's easy to see why. (This is the second time I'm blogging about them ....
Saturday, September 17, 2016

Bad Stripe Is Evident in More QOL Indicators

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New as of 2023: southern half of the Appalachian part of the Bad Stripe doing better than than northern half (divider is basically along t...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

The Bad Stripe = "Greater Appalachia"

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The Bad Stripe I've identified based on voting out of sync with the rest of the country and even the rest of their states, and a consis...
Thursday, May 19, 2016

More Sleep, Further East in Time Zone Equals Higher Wages

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Paper here .
Sunday, March 20, 2016

Europe as China: Why Didn't It Happen This Way, Part II

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For the original thought experiment, see the opposite question being asked by a historian living in an alternate history, a la "Man in ...

Europe as China: Why Didn't It Happen This Way?

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Exposition from a real-world standpoint here . If you enjoy the alternate history aspect of this piece you should see What Do The Patterns ...
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Saturday, June 27, 2015

New World, Non-Malthusian Population More Determined by Historical Accident Than Climate

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Above: the Frontier Strip - the westernmost U.S. states before the Rockies - contain the 100th meridian (bold vertical line in maps) whic...
Friday, March 27, 2015

Is It Better For a Capital NOT to be the Largest City?

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After an enjoyable blog post about New Zealand at Crooked Timbers , a commenter pointed out how unusual it is for a country's capital no...
Friday, January 31, 2014

Political Geography, if Pangea Had Never Broken Up

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More interesting maps here .
Monday, January 27, 2014

If Africa Had Never Been Colonized

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Go here for more alternate history ; go here for more weird geography .
Friday, January 3, 2014

If Every U.S. State That Tried to Secede From Another State Became a State

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It would look like this. I'm now living in Reagan (I might actually be if the current petition to divide California succeeds). As for...
Saturday, November 23, 2013

Graphic Tool for Inmigration, United States, 2012

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At the site where it's published you can mouse over individual states to see the flows for that state. Note that each line between a...
Wednesday, September 4, 2013

The "Food Desert" Idea is a Useless or Harmful Myth

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The narrative of the food desert goes something like this: grocery stores are where you get produce and healthy food. Grocery stores are p...