Takeaway: it's actually mind-blowing that this many people own a home from the two most recent generations (Gen Z not pictured to avoid a horror story).

• It takes two incomes on average to own a home these days
• As a country, US has absolutely horrible childcare and after school care options. Many dual income household pay a high double-digit % of their mortgage for daycare
• Many young parents are literally forced to reduce hours, stop career advancement or quit all together if they want to maintain population growth
• Record number of people in their 20s and 30s living with parents

Thanks federal, state and local governments for collectively shrugging your shoulders while your most productive tax-paying cohorts are getting blamed for having it too easy, skipping homeownership, and not having kids. Good luck to all!

... yeah, there is the thought that 2020 was unique (some 'causative' event) and that, therefore, the data is just 'coincidental" because the non-random, top/bottom Rep/Dem pattern would not be so noticeable

BUT

Mencken did a ranking of the states in 1930 using multiple data sources and multiple metrics and Politico did so in 2014 and there was an 2022 International Economic Review paper doing a 'well-ness' survey ––– all with similar results showing the pattern (05Jan2023 post).

Ninety years, different investigators, different (mostly) metics: same results ...

... go figure

I think you are right: "probably political" ... finding the metrics which would define "political" ... now there is a quest

This seems more like using context free data to push an agenda.

Almost as insulting as being an actual intellectual, which is seemingly ad hominem attacks unrelated to my comments.

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I thought they just made the corruption legal in New Jersey.

TLDR: White circles are CO2e emissions per 10m people. Black dashed rings and colorful dashed rings show the "fair share" emissions for a single country.

Yeah... in hindsight, the distinction between the white / black circles isn't strong enough.. and there's too much distinction between the black rings and the colorful rings, which are conceptually equivalent.

If you look close, you can see that the black rings are actually dashed rings. They show "fair share" for lesser emitters, so they're the equivalent to the larger colorful, dashed rings for the top 10 emitters. So to show fair share, there are 10 colorful-dashed rings for the top 10 countries and ~220 black-dashed rings for the other ~220 countries.

On the other hand, the white-circle puffs represent actual emissions. Each white-circle puffs show 29 years of emissions, per 10m people from a particular country. This is like cumulative per-capita emissions (so white-circles for a given country are all the same size). Each country has one white circle for every 10 million people (or one proportionately smaller circle for countries with <10m people). So there are ~650 total white-circle puffs for the average ~6.5B world population. The smokey background for the puffs are mainly for mood/tone and differentiating the top 10, but they're also meant to connect the puffs since packed circles leave some gaps.

The idea with the white-circle puffs was that, if we arrange the puffs in a loose hexgrid, the area for all puffs would sum to roughly the area of total emissions for that country, in a way that's comparable to the fair-share rings... and the area of all 650 puffs (including lesser emitters) should sum to the area for total global emissions.

So, for example, the average population for Canada over the period was like ~30 million people, so Canada has 3 white-circle puffs. Canada emitted 4x its "fair share" of CO2e, so you can see that each white-circle puff is quite big, and the total area of their 3 puffs is ~4x the area of their dashed-fair-share ring.

It looks like it is plateauing to anyone with eyes

Yea I'd thought if that too. But honestly I don't see how this goes in any other direction aside from sedition and then eventually being attacked by the seditionists :/

And those columns disguised as rows.

I could see a Red Dawn scenario playing out, only the secessionist states would invite Russia in.

After WWII black soldiers were denied the G.I. Bill which aided in the the generational wage gap

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Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!

(Source: New Jersey)

It is, but just because he shorts doesn’t mean he’s lying or incorrect. But it is something that should be at least considered.

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What is happening in the north? Do the border guards just look at the Russian border guards since there's no fighting there right now?

I think pseudointellectualism has taken over rational thought, in your case

Objectivity is rarely achieved by the press, much less reddit.

Its true all over though. Crime down, fear of crime up. Actual bigotry down, accusations of racism way up.

Anecdotes have overtaken stats as the driver of way too many aspects of our lives.

The whole "calm down" and "relax!" responses are part of our new linguistic jujitsu. I wrote the above while taking my morning shit and was and am super relaxed (in my home w a 3.5% interest rate)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_Research Nathan Anderson

As someone from Northwest Indiana, please take us with you.

It needs a strong judicial system before all

Also why is Colorado red? I understand Georgia because it's surrounded but that's just a huge oversight

There are more than two races in America, it is odd and suspicious when graphs deliberately exclude Asians and Hispanics.

(Not including Native American and Pacific Islanders sometimes makes sense because of small sample sizes)

Every once in awhile I see a piece of data that just BLOWS my mind. Here is one that just does blows my mind for you all... Home ownership for blacks is the SAME today for blacks as it was in 1980!!! So after the last 40+ years home ownership for blacks has not improved at all. That is just crazy.