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(des)mosthenes to Data is BeautifulEnglish · 2 years ago

This is what the United States looks like if you scale states by population

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This is what the United States looks like if you scale states by population

(des)mosthenes to Data is BeautifulEnglish · 2 years ago
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  • michaelcharles@programming.dev
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    As a Floridian I’m uncomfortable with how much Florida there is.

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      its where everyone goes to retire it seems

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      feel like half my states (NY/NJ) go there

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    Fun fact: The population of the entire state of Wyoming is about the same as that of the 100th largest city in the US

    Wyoming: 576,851

    Scranton, PA metro area: 567,559

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      An elector in Wyoming represents around 150,000 voters, whereas a California elector represents the votes of some 500,000 residents. That makes their votes over 3 times more powerful… lol

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      Any yet those assholes get the same number of senators as California. Wildly out-of-balance system.

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    Its buck wild how many people willingly live in Florida.

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      no taxes does that; it already too expensive imo

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    Sad how different it looks of you scale by electoral college votes.

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      permanent minority rule since 1876

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    The four people in Montana over there squinting to see what’s happening in the other states

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      lololol

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    alaska is even more wild as a big segment lives on the panhandle would be interesting to seperate the panhandle from upper alaska

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    As a Rhode Islander this makes me happy

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    Michigan upper peninsula looks out of scale with the lower, but not relative to how low the population is. And looks like Wisconsin is trying to steal it

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    This map would probably be a lot more meaningful to me if I could identify more than texas, florida & california

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      https://www.vox.com/2015/8/12/9132953/state-population-rank sauce

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        That deserves a post of it’s own! Very interesting!

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