Posted on 03/05/2009 9:43:26 AM PST by Lorianne
Interactive map by county
see graphic at link.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Interesting.
Look at that solid center of the country. Flyover.
Relatively speaking, no one lives there. But those that do are largely employed.
They grow food there too.
Last laugh?
hmmmm, something is familiar about that map.. but I just can’t place it...
Quite telling. I notice the Mid-Atlantic area where I live is still pretty low. Also note how DC virtually has no unemployment. I want me a gubmint job!
Look at the big city areas...quite high. What do you think Libs? How’s your hero doing?
I live in Washington County, VA the unemployment rate is listed as 6.9%. But almost every gas station and other small businesses have help wanted signs in them.
This about people not being willing to work at jobs they don’t like. Instead they choose to be lazy. It’s better to be working than not at all.
Cue the next Dem talking point:
Alaska Unemployment
I would love to see a website with this graphic right beside the vote results at the same physical scale.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/flash/newsgraphics/2009/0303-leonhardt/UnemploymentGraphic.swf
This, perhaps?
It would appear the Slimes have a pretty good Flash hacker on staff. I wonder how much longer they will be able afford him/her.
Thanks for the link. It appears to me that some of the large areas out west are reservations. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Gosh.
The areas (metropolitan + housing bubble filters) all speak Spanish. Or Ebonic. And vote democrat.
None of which reflect well-educated English-speaking trainable adults who want to work.
Every picture tells a story, don't it? ~ Rod Stewart
But other states, like South Carolina & Tennessee are a little surprising - I'd like to see the SC & TN maps overlayed with their ethnic compositions.
I'll do a little googling and see what I can come up with.
Lemme help...
Nope, post 9 what was I was hinting at.
In Arizona that's true: Navajo and Apache County. But in California, the worst hit are the agricultural counties, such as Colusa up north (rice and walnuts), Sutter (peaches and prunes), and Imperial way down south (truck farming).
What's the common denominator? These counties rely on seasonal migrant workers (yes, some legal) and their unemployment rates are always high during the off-season.
New Hampshire, for instance, went 100% Obama, but has very low unemployment.
Alaska went 100% McCain, but has high unemployment.
The broad patterns are fairly clear - in the Southeast, they look to correlate with large negro populations, and in California, with large aboriginal populations, but there are still lots of outlier counties.
In the state of Michigan, for instance, it almost looks like one of the two maps is colored completely wrong - you have the high unemployment counties going McCain and the low unemployment counties going Obama, and that just doesn't feel right to me.
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