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I love this, even if it’s too conservative when it comes to preserving existing state boundaries.  Why is Nevada so recognizable?  It would be better to see this map reflect concentrated populations only; coastal Washington and Oregon together, for example.   To see one enormous state covering most of eastern Montana, both Dakota and Wyoming [...]

The last time Massachusetts elected a Republican to the Senate was in 1966, the Thermidorian Reaction against LBJ’s Great Society.  Forty-four years ago, that man was Edward Brooke, the first popularly elected African American Senator.  He was a liberal Republican, the first in the party to urge Nixon to resign, and he had sex with [...]

Via Cartophilia.
This is kind of neat.  It’s a good eye into which senators are kind of stupid.  Mark Begich of Alaska can’t write for shit, Jim Risch of Idaho is fairly thorough, and Susan Collins can draw Maine freakishly well.

Good job, honey.  Now cut the shit and vote for the public option.
Saxby Chambliss, on the [...]

States where more than 60% of people under thirty don’t care to tell people what to do with their lives.
States where 50-60% of people under thirty don’t care to tell people what to do with their lives.
States where less than 50% don’t care to tell people what to do with their lives, and the majority [...]

One of my ancillary ambitions (after getting to all 50 states before I turn 30; 17 months and 6 to go) is to visit all 58 United States National Parks.  There are hundreds and hundreds of places, in dozens of different categories, that fall under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service, including the Presidio [...]

I can’t believe this is British. I’m consistently surprised by how casually Europeans drop references to American political and geographic arcana.  Long Island’s big, but not necessarily something I’d assume occupies real estate in the average Brit’s mind as a spatial reference.
Not a bad map, actually.  You can see West and East Eggs, the first [...]

This is pretty neat.
I would add Phoenix to Tucson and Dallas-Austin-San Antonio, both of which are among the fastest growing corridors.  The eminent domain crisis brewing in Texas needs a little redirection away from toll roads towards high speed rail.  But what’s less Texan than that?
It’s funny how isolated Atlanta is from other big cities, [...]

If there’s one thing that drives me crazy, it’s the parochialism of the so-called elites.  While it’s undeniable that affluent people tend to live along the coasts or in selected suburban counties ringing cities throughout the country (Arapahoe County, Colorad; Oakland County, Michigan; Collin County, Texas; etc) I always take issue with the fact that [...]

Since I like polychromatic things, nerdy things and the orderly regularity of the alphabet, it’s only natural that I would swoon over San Francisco’s residential parking permit system.  Here is the delightful map showing where you can park (for more than an hour, or two, or four) only if you live in the nabe.  I [...]