Where you from?

Credit Wall-e for this site. (This probably could also have gone in the "TIL" thread, but seemed worthy of its own discussion)

http://all-that-is-interesting.com/maps-that-explain-america?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=kw_amer_maps&kwp_0=231795

Apparently, (among other things) I'm from the land of Dutch people who cook meth, have a McDonald's on every corner, and emit enormous amounts of light pollution. Sadly, that doesn't sound that far off.

Sorry if the site is a little "click-baity", but there's some pretty interesting information in some of the maps.

Well. I have slightly less meth that you do. Being one county north.

The amount of snow map didn't surprise me. My hometown (BFE no-where) shows 24" to cancel. Sounds about right.

I'm from the south. South Joisey!

The good news is we were relatively late in getting our first Walmart.

kazoospec wrote: The good news is we were relatively late in getting our first Walmart.

Only due to Meijer being founded in the area.

Am I the only one that has to create links or cut and paste to view these? I figure my browser settings have changed or the site has.

Maps

Here in SoCal the high paid Basketball coach has the freedom to marry whomever, be obese, cook meth, and buy the raw materials for the meth at Walmart since 1993.

Patient zero of the Walmart Virus, we're fat, unhappy, segregated, cook a lot of meth, spend a lot of money on football, somehow read the Huffington Post, frequent tornadoes, and it only takes a snow flake to close school.

Boy that's a heck of an endorsement. Y'all come on down here, at least the food's good, and most of the scenery is pleasant.

I'm from the land of Italian immigrants. Fitting, seeing as how I live in a city called ROME, New York.

The land of Irish football coaches within spitting distance of where all the nations wealth is concentrated. Surrounded by germans, and well supplied with Walmarts near prisons where 4.7 percent of all our people live.

I live in the middle of "you all". It's a surprisingly small area.

That site sent my phone into spasms, I'll try again this evening.

There was no "Yinz" represented on the map, so the data is flawed.

WalMart's geographic strategy in North Dakota seems pretty clear.

Surprised that women slightly out number men around me (didn't feel that way when I was single), and I expected more meth. Everything else seems about right.

Some of the maps fail to include other people in North America.

But we aren't quite as fat as those in the U.S. (but close) and we put a hell of a lot less people in jail apparently.

the map I found most interesting was the one dividing 50% of the economy by location. I realized that when I travel to my common business meeting cities - Chicago, DC, Miami - I truly do see how the other half lives.

I'm not "From" anywhere cause I am still "Here".

KyAllroad wrote: I live in the middle of "you all". It's a surprisingly small area.

I'm from the easternmost edge of "you all." I knew it was small because after I moved away from Ky, everyone assumed I was trying to say "y'all."

Margie

The county in PA I grew up in is one of the darker ones on the Meth Map