Maps of lesser-known facts about America

Aug 3, 2020 9:49 PM

MetalPsychologist

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The loudest and quietest spots in the continental U.S.

States with a smaller population than Los Angeles County

The United States of America: Alaskan Perspective

U.S. watersheds

The red and orange areas have equal population

U.S. population lines

Drug overdose deaths per 100k in 1999 and 2014

States scaled proportionally to population density

Map of the lowest recorded temperature in each state

8 million miles of roads, streets, and highways

Date of creation of all 3,142 U.S. counties

U.S. governors by eye color

U.S. counties with GDP over $100B

The more I think about it, the more I want to move to Wyoming.

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Boy, the zoom in feature on Imgur is really useless lately. It's either the same size or, worse, smaller.

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https://imgur.com/ub7tk74

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Shout out the hoes in the entire state of Maryland.

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Excuse me where is insert 4?

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So proud of the 402

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This is important information

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Wrong. Colorado hates Texas.

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Colorado is like 3 states shoved in a box though. Folks up in Sterling have a wildly different daily existence to those in Co Springs.

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True.

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Where are my LEGENDS???

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Bro

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Many other states have rivalries, but only Michigan and Ohio had the balls to go to war with each other.

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Yup. And what was it for? Access to a Lake Erie port if I remember right. Now it only remains for the footballers to inflict symbolic mayhem

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The only time in Toledo's life that someone wanted them

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How does Philadelphia Cty have a gdp >100B but none of the NYC counties do?

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I think I see some red for Manhattan.

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Fuck Indiana

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The only redeeming quality of IN is that my parents live there

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And left lane cruiser is from there...

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Fuck you, buddy!

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We say no to Gary!

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One of my favorite places just a few hours from me is a crossover of both the quietest and least light-polluted places in the states.

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*nature intensifies*

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As someone that lives in Illinois, I can verify that no one wants to live in Illinois.

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As an Illinoisan... meh, All joking aside it's hard to hate the state, but by the same virtue anyone would have a place better.

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I came here looking for a fellow “I don’t wanna be in Illinoisan”

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Please take me with you if you go

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So did I. Can’t tell ya how many times I’ve heard “I’d leave this state in a heartbeat but [fill in the blank]”

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Grass isn't always greener...

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There are a lot of USA pride types around here, but I don't know if I've ever met an Illinois-proud person outside of chambana

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That's because people in Illinois who are proud of where they are want to split the state in two. I've met plenty of non-Chicagoans who 1/x

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are proud of being Downstate, and plenty of Chicagoans who are proud of the city (me included). But the more proud you are of that, the 2/x

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more you tend to resent the other group being lumped into "Illinois". 3/3

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Texas is really Baja Oklahoma.

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Always has been

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lmfao at hawaii

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Please no. I'm from Ohio, it's nice to be able to leave it sometimes.

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Some of lower Ohio is above Ohio

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Greenland is further north, south, east and west or Iceland

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Ohio can fuck off and all

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Grew up in northeast OH and currently living in Cleveland and I wholeheartedly agree.

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Spoken like a true lower-Ohioan

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You want another Toledo War? You just try us again!

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What’s goin’ on along the NC/VA border that’s so loud? I live here & it’s pretty quiet since there’s literally no city close.

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You snore

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LOL. "If you can't figure out what the problem is..."

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In Michigan we always know what direction south is. We can smell Ohio.

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Now I have proof you are all pigeons!

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Hey now, my GF is from Ohio and I take high....pride in this because I give her crap about Ohio every chance I get.

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South Carolinians hate Ohioans because they’re the ones bringing confederate flags down to our beaches

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Unless you're in Detroit and then we have Canada in between.

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Windsor passes the South-smell test. It’s the asshole of Ontario.

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Detroit is #1 in being North of Canada.

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Journey: “Born and raised in south Detroit!” Michigander: “you mean Windsor?”

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I knew the Mississippi watershed was big but fuck me dead, that's big

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#9 I see our war on drugs was won by drugs

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So that war on drugs, eh?

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Just say no

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Drugs won a long time ago. It was on weekend update.

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It was a war on bla...never mind. Yeah. War on drugs

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As a virginian , I can tell you that we hate Maryland waaaaay worse than west Virginia.

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Lived in CO for 29 yrs. Moved to MT 1.5 yrs ago. I get why no one hates those 2 states. They're both stunningly beautiful!

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What did Ohio do to South Carolina?

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It's tourists. There was a whole discussion about it the first time the map was posted.

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Was going to ask the same thing. Born in OH, I understand the OH/MI rivalry, no idea what the hate from SC was about.

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They all move here and we don’t want them.

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Probably college football related. Ohio St. vs. Clemson

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Ya, same as Massachusetts and New York with the Red Sox / Yankee rivalry.

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Tourists, if there's no sport or historical context, it's due to Tourists.

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They know what they did.

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It's Ohio.

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SC here... Has a lot to do with vacationers coming to the coast, Myrtle Beach and Charleston specifically. Driving, attitudes, etc.

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NC here, that's exactly what I figured it was

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As some who moved to Ohio. People have the worst attitude almost par with Californians.

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They travel to the Carolinas for vacation.

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In droves.

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#4 Texans, when the grass starts speaking Vietnamese: ...

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Anyone else get kind of bummed out that Hawaii’s secondary language isn’t Hawaiian?

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Damnit, South Dakota!

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hey!

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How did this one not make the list??

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Geographism

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It's not about america

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Nothing so sweet so salty so dry, all at once so well as pie. Oh, me oh my, I love pie

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You know why its so windy in Texas? Oklahoma sucks.

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Weird. The reason Indiana doesn't float away into Lake Michigan is because Kentucky sucks.

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I thought that's why Texas doesn't float into the Gulf of Mexico?

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I really doubt California hates Texas the most, considering how many of them move to Texas

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Tech jobs are moving. Lived in SF moved to Seattle not in AZ I hate AZ the most

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If you get divorced in Texas, are you still cousins?

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You're confusing Texas, with Arkansas.

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How does a Texan get to heaven? I-35 North

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Oh, shit.

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*Disclaimer: When the eternal road construction allows.

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Preferably with a detour via I-35W, the pleasant-er drive

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We have the same joke here in NM. Why does the wind blow east to west: Texas blows. Why does the wind blow west to east: Texas sucks.

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As a Texan, I'm pretty much over it, I can wait to live somewhere better

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Really? I heard it's cuz Texas blows

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Texas doesn't fall into the Gulf because Oklahoma sucks.

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No, New Mexico blows, Oklahoma sucks.

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Currently working in New Mexico. Can confirm. There’s a reason this was the first place we ever nuked.

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New Jersey hates everyone. Nailed it.

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As a new jersian for near 30 years. Yes I hated all other states. As a Pennsylvanian for nearly a decade... I also hate where I lived.

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Everyone give us shit, what did you expect?

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"Loudest spots in America" as it it's any different from a population map.

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It looked like a chunk of it may have been from major highways, but I guess that could count for 'transient population'

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There's an xkcd comic about that, how tons of maps are basically just population density maps.

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https://xkcd.com/1138/ there it is https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/heatmap.png

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no but see this one captures my wife on a zoom call.

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Big Vietnamese population in Nebraska, eh?

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Nebraska is pretty much empty, and a lot of Vietnamese fled to the US during the war, they had to go somewhere.

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We do have some fairly large refugee populations. Combined with a small total population, you end up with some surprising data.

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So few people live in Nebraska, I'm not even sure it exists, so even a few non-English speakers would skew the data.

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-80°?!?! Holy shit

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Balaclavas, not just for bank robbery & kidnappings lol

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It gets really cold in winter when northern Alaska goes months without sunlight

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Well, it is really really far north.

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Even Floridians hate Florida.

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Ok but wtf is up with New York student spending?

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Hilarious

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I'm from Florida and... yes.

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Hey you’re from Florida too? fuck you!

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Even Flo Rida hates Florida.

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but for some reason, theyre not horribly inclined to move away...

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As a Floridian, Florida should be striped for "hates Florida" and "Hates California"

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As a Washingtonian, I've never met anyone who avidly hates California.. I live in Seattle though so maybe eastern Washington hates Cali?

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Who tf doesnt?

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I'm a Floridian & I don't hate Florida.Hate alligators,mosquitos,Disney World,Sharks,Heat,& bad drivers,but don't hate Florida.

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Gators are fine, and sharks are cool.

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That's exactly what a computer using gator or shark would say.

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I just hate everyone in Florida

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No one hates Pennsylvania!

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Ok. I kind of hate PA. But, I'm from there so it's ok

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Or Maryland! ?

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Or Colorado ?

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Or Georgia!

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Now I do, just out of spite

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Or Arkansas :)

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I kinda hate Arkansas. Get your own goddamn Kansas

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Uhhhh... we were a state first. (And we actually pronounce our name as it was intended to be pronounced.) Kansas = French spelling of 1/

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Native American tribe Kansa (silent s got anglicized over the years) Arkansas = french spelling of Native American word acansa. 2/2

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