Showing posts with label usa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label usa. 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...
Monday, February 3, 2020

The Benefit of Joining the United States Comes from Becoming More Like New England

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In an SSRN paper, Maseland and Spruk look at an interesting counterfactual : how would territories have performed that did in reality join ...
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...
Saturday, January 4, 2020

Australia and USA Populating at the Same Rate: Coincidence?

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I wondered: how does Australia's current population density compare to the U.S.'s at the same point in its history? Australia'...
Sunday, March 17, 2019

A Morbid Calculation: Conquest Rate of the Americas and Cultural Assimilation Rates

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The first European set foot on what would later become the United States in 1513. The last uncontacted indigenous person was captured in...
Friday, February 15, 2019

Remembering Jefferson; Forgetting Lee

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As monuments to Robert E. Lee have been dismantled, there have been debates about whether we should do the same for monuments to Thomas Jeff...
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...
Saturday, September 1, 2018

Patterns that Emerge In Both Social Conservatives and Social Leftists

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The American left is beginning to curiously resemble the right - not in its positions, but in dynamics and behavior. I can't quite say ...
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 .
Wednesday, May 3, 2017

U.S. Presidents, Quality and Remembrance by Experts vs. Popular Opinion

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Previously I measured the prominence of U.S. Presidents , using a quantitative measure (mentions in print as indexed by Google N-gram; a per...
Friday, March 24, 2017

Some Historical Analogies for This Point in American History

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Several of these analogies have been lucidly argued elsewhere, and I've provided relevant links. Whether history rhymes or repeats, the...
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...
Monday, May 16, 2016

Polk, Truman, Eisenhower Are Most Unjustly Forgotten, Ford is Most Relatively Obscure U.S. President

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1) Who is the most obscure president, adjusting for temporal distance? That is to say; Gerald Ford and Millard Fillmore are both obscure, b...
Sunday, November 15, 2015

Without the World Wars, Would the U.S. Have Played the Role of a Bigger Canada?

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A good way to eclipse your economic competition is for their industrial centers to be flattened by wars twice, within a few decades, and for...
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...
Saturday, November 22, 2014

Examples of Antiquity's Influence on American Founders

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Of many, here are two of recent interest: 1) Gibbon's pointing to the increasing power of the Praetorian Guard in the Roman Empire lead...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Wealth and Coastline, Part 2: The United States

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Previously I showed that the average income in the set of 138 countries for which I had income data, countries that do have some saltwater c...
Monday, July 1, 2013

Map of the U.S. With Literal Place Names

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I was surprised that they went out on a limb for Arizona, which doesn't really have an accepted etymology. But Saint Heelholder for San...
Sunday, December 26, 2010

Why Is the Frontier Strip Where It Is

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Summary: Climate continues to have a profound impact on the distribution and economic activities of humans. There is a rapid population d...
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