April 17, 2014
This is not a map
This is not a map. The Asian population of the US is not confined to Maine and northern Washington, and residents of the Dakotas are not primarily Black and Hispanic. It’s a stacked line plot, which has been cut out to fit the map outline, just like you might do in kindergarten. (via Flowing Data)
Here’s the real thing, from Pew Research.
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I guess they figured the numbers for Asian and Other between 1970 and 2050 or so just didn’t matter?
10 years ago
From a nerd viewpoint a particularly ironic aspect of the omission is that it happens because they got the geographical projection details right — the western section of the US/Canada border runs due east-west, and they’re showing better-than-average sophistication in portraying as curved.
10 years ago