The darker color in tornado alley is green for “no data”, which is odd, but I assume it’s similar to the darker orange and red around it.

Yeah =(

The map tracks with high American Indian and White populations.

It looks like their source was the Eurostat Data Browser. Maybe these are just the countries it has data for?

I’m pretty sure that would be every state, right?

My guess is that there isn’t a country out there that has a cultural preference for women over men, so at best you’re going to see fairly close to equal, plus the difference of men dying earlier from things like wars, dangerous jobs, and lifestyle.

Whereas there are many cultures that strongly select for male children, plus some that also bring in high numbers of male workers.

In many countries where males are valued more highly culturally, infanticide is depressingly common. On a similar note, many countries have outlawed doctors revealing the baby’s sex during pregnancy appointments because too many parents would end the pregnancy if it was going to be a girl.

Texas is big and tends to go red in the winner-takes-all system, but it also has more blue voters than some states have voters total.

This is literally the best thing that could happen to our democracy, in my opinion. Unfortunately it requires the 2 major parties to agree to give up some of their influence, so…

I believe this is the source of the image:

https://purplestatesofamerica.org/

Colorado was one of the first states to legalize recreational weed, so I wonder if that factored in…

They know what they did.

Yes, they are in serious trouble.

And while the rest of the developed world seems to be following in a similar direction, they’ve been leading the way for years.

He was unfortunately redundant.

Sorry for removing the comment you just replied to. I didn’t realize I had grabbed the wrong graph from the article.

You could be right. I believe I found the original image circulating on reddit or tumblr (it was a few days ago).

I haven’t had the opportunity to read your link directly to the study yet.

Oh shoot, you’re right. I grabbed the wrong one. I was just looking at the dates.

The hetero graph in this article only goes to 2009, so this whole article probably isn’t too helpful. I’ve removed. Thanks

(**edit: I had accidentally grabbed a graph about same-sex relationships without realizing it and have removed.)

Is there anything we can’t privatize for profit?

It has to be smartphone apps coming out

It’s hard to get a headcount when people are fast as lightning.

I think “grade school” would count K-12, but I could be wrong. I was surprised about the church thing too, especially since the data goes back far enough that it should be significant. I wonder if it’s falling under another umbrella.