[Stegall Tx]

Love that map. It shows most of Bailey County, Texas outside of Muleshoe (where I grew up) as a food desert. The county produces something along the lines of $25 million in agricultural products per year ... but the poor people of the county don't live close to a grocery store.

I guess they'd be better off if they'd just get these darn farms out of the way!

[cripplecreek]

Some of the counties in the upper peninsula of muchgan have less than 5000 people in them and are listed as food deserts.

[Brass Lamp]

The real telling thing about the map is that when you zoom in on any large city, the "food deserts" shrink to the size of neighborhoods, breaking the five-mile-radius definition. They then string along several of these pink spaces to form apparently contiguous zones.

It would also be necessary, in the less densely populated counties, for every other resident to be a grocer to avoid the classification.