These 9 Maps Should Absolutely Outrage Southerners. Look, there are lots of things to love about the South. It's clean and quiet. There's delicious food, good people and often amazing weather. But that's exactly why it makes us so sad to think about all the ways in which the region is struggling today. First off, poverty rates are a lot higher in the South. Source: USDA In fact, as many as one in four Southern kids lives in poverty, compared to the national average of one in five. In the map above, red shading indicates a poverty rates between 17.9 and 22.8 percent. And minimum wages are much lower.
Source: Department Of Labor Virtually no Southern states, with the exception of Florida, have a minimum wage higher than the federal floor of $7.25 an hour. And people living in the South are a lot less likely to move up the economic ladder. Source: Equality Of Opportunity Project If you want to achieve the American Dream, don't move to the South. Many living in poverty in the South are being denied access to affordable health care. Source: CDC. Dog Whistle Politics: What if Only White People Voted? | Blog, Connecting the Dots. After the 2012 election, Buzzfeed put together a series of electoral maps that showed what the results would have looked like if we didn’t have universal suffrage. A couple of them went viral, including this one, which depicts the election results if only white men voted, which was the case before the 15th Amendment was ratified in 1870: …and this one, which depicts the outcome if only white men and women voted: Some people looked at these maps and concluded that they proved white America unwilling to vote for a black president, but that conclusion was far too simplistic.
The reality is that the Democratic Party has had a structural disadvantage among white voters that is, at least in part, a result of the success of Republicans’ “Southern Strategy” — dog whistle politics. Ultimately, race is just a single variable. A similar gap exists between married couples (Romney took 56 percent) and singles (62 percent of whom went for Obama in 2012). The Biggest Stereotype Of Every State In America In 1 Map. On Tuesday, President Obama will report to Congress on the condition of the country. But over the weekend, we got another taste of the state of the Union through Google. Thanks to the Twitter account @Amazing_Maps, we now have an idea of how the Internet stereotypes all 50 U.S. states. When a search phrase like "Why is Illinois so... " is typed into Google, the search engine autocompletes the sentence with the word that people most commonly write in the search bar next. In this way, Google autocomplete may reveal the deeply held assumptions the public holds about a state.
In the case of Illinois, the result was "corrupt. " Clearly, the Rod Blagojevich scandal has made an impact. Apart from Ohio, which was dubbed "important" presumably because of its influence as a swing state in presidential elections, and Oregon ("good") or Colorado ("fit"), it's hard to call any of theses results a compliment. [h/t The Wire] Suggest a correction Contact Us. Presidential Elections. Modern Gerrymanders: 10 Most Contorted Congressional Districts. Presidential Election Interactive Map and History of the Electoral College.
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