I feel this. I don’t go on FB often but I’ve seen how people I went to HS with in central Ohio were able to buy houses in that area years ago in their mid 20s. I’m 30 now and it could take my partner and I another 10 years to afford even smallest of houses in the SF Bay Area where I currently live if we’re lucky. We’re seriously considering moving to the Midwest at this point. Wouldn’t trade getting to spend my 20s here in California for much though. It’s been a lot of fun, but it seems like it has become impossible for a lot of normal people to ever settle down here.

These are MSAs, OP didn’t make them up. Part of the Fargo metro area is in MN.

The profit is kept by the shareholders and only the shareholders. I own nvidia. If you own any large mutual funds, you own nvidia too. I think you don’t understand the structure of public companies.

As someone who has a bachelors degree, it’s not that impressive

What’s the deal with all these “let me show you how we democrats are way better than you stupid republicans” type post lately? Just stop it already

Colorado lol.

Everyone moving there rn is gonna move back in ~4 years cuz they can’t actually own a home unless you’re a rich Californian

Data source: Central Bank of Nigeria

Tool used: Datawrapper

Source article: Widowed and Homeless, Internally Displaced Nigerian Women Recount Devastating Flood Experiences

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Kind of a weird label for Fargo.

It's labeled as "Fargo ND-MN" (It's at the 4.6 mark)

Fargo is in ND, not MN.

no? why would you think that.

This is a problem with a lot of north suburb Chicago homes. They’re already relatively expensive with high property taxes, but don’t really increase in value. Worst of both worlds

Places people want to live in cost more.

You're claiming that higher education indoctrinates people?

Chattanooga, TN - GA

Look I get we're on the line but.....pick a godamned state

EDIT: Oh shit we aint the only ones

Oil isn't a huge source of employment anymore in ND. The boom ended a while ago. I actually worked there back in 2013-14.

No. Regardless of the state populations, if the line is a perfect fit, then the whole US population would be directly on the line. The entire US would have a partisan lean of 0 (by definition) and according to the source has a bachelors degree attainment of 32.9%, which is very close to the line but slightly above it.

Plus, oil is a huge industry in ND. You don't need a degree to work on a field.

Spectacular! Thank you for taking the time to post this. Enjoy your award!

Was that regression line fit weighted by population?

For what it's worth, North Dakota and Wyoming have some of the highest average incomes, but are the reddest with the least education.

It's probably got more to do with rural vs. urban area. There's a lot of rich farmers in the midwest with not much education.

Lol i know, right? $70K per capita? The median HHI in Davidson County is like $69K. I’d wager most people in Nashville area are earning $45-$65K tops. Wages here suck.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MHITN47037A052NCEN

The new parameters would be:

y = 2.8717x - 98.644

R² = 0.5251

So not very different, but DC improves the R^2 value somewhat.

What a confused way to say: "the more you know the more you are a democrat".

So, just the matching data with case-wise deletion of sounds like. Would be interesting to see some descriptives: how many of the largest metropolitan areas are included? What percent of US population does this cover? Racial demographics of cities?

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