American Maps

I love maps, i admit it. It brings out the geek in me and I found the mecca for all map lovers. A blog on strange maps (see links) and I thought I'd highlight a couple of maps in particular.







This is a map of the South East of the USA. The dots represent the white cotton production in 1860 (each dot is 2000 bales). The blue and red is the election results in 2008. Red being Obama and Blue McCain. The correlation is staggering. If my lecturer did drum one thing into me at uni, it was 'Correlation is not Causation'.





I don't know enough about regionalism in the US but the blog says it's to do with the placement of African Americans in the US. I doubt this because they aren't a big enough minority to shift states. I'll guess that most of these states have voted the same way for some time. I would think that the places where cotton mills existed were financially better off than those areas without them. Upper class have tended to be more right wing than poorer areas. This is a guess though.





The next map is a map of US motto's. I thought it was interesting for no particular reason.