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| This Brilliant Map Renames Each US State With A Country Generating The Same GDP |
| 2014-02-13 |
| ..sorry Wisconsin - looks like you'll have to start working e-mail scams.. |
| Posted by:Uncle Phester |
| #21 I find it pleasantly ironic that Illinois is Saudiland and Louisiana is Isreal. |
| Posted by: Charles 2014-02-13 22:38 |
| #20 that would be like the "EU" being a country. They're just mechanisms for graft, control, regulation, and redistribution, not a country, or even a State |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-02-13 21:51 |
| #19 I don't think there is a country like DC. Can anyone imagine a country which sustains such a negative GDP for such a long time? DC consumes much, much, more GDP than it produces. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-02-13 21:13 |
| #18 It's downhill of all the |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-02-13 20:50 |
| #17 DC = |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-02-13 20:46 |
| #16 I wonder where DC (which is NOT a state) would fit? I'm pretty sure DC is labeled "Hungary". |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2014-02-13 19:40 |
| #15 Florida = the Netherlands. LOL, if we could only deal with street litter it would be perfect. We got your dykes right here! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-02-13 17:35 |
| #14 I'm always going to remember Archie Bunker mentioning "the grossest national product..." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2014-02-13 15:22 |
| #13 as for the gasoline map; every cigarette smuggler knows to gas up in Virginia while traveling up route 95 loaded with Marlboros. |
| Posted by: airandee 2014-02-13 11:30 |
| #12 next month michigan may switch from south africa to anarctica. |
| Posted by: airandee 2014-02-13 11:27 |
| #11 Hahaha, Utah and Bangladesh! |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2014-02-13 11:27 |
| #10 I'd like to see a map that charts productivity per capita by each of the 57 states. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-02-13 09:03 |
| #9 I wonder where DC (which is NOT a state) would fit? France? Germany? China? Japan? |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2014-02-13 08:34 |
| #8 My 'map of the month club' entry depicts gasoline taxes per state. Klik on map to enlarge. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-02-13 08:02 |
| #7 So this makes Australia 'Baja New Zealand'? Sorry. It's early. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-02-13 07:23 |
| #6 >although us national gdp has meaning You really think so? GDP is hugely misleading. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-02-13 07:01 |
| #5 Ouch: NY = Mexico that will leave a mark. |
| Posted by: regular joe 2014-02-13 06:29 |
| #4 although us national gdp has meaning, state and metro gdp have some statistical quirks making it less meaningful (e.g., the hq effect, the govt salary effect) in addition, the gdp of some countries is only a crude estimate in any case the mapping of states to countries would have to change every year |
| Posted by: lord garth 2014-02-13 05:23 |
| #3 Grease the right palms, Joe, and they'd make Guam a monarchy. You could be King! |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-02-13 01:32 |
| #2 All 57 US States??? Yoohoo, Bammer, I'm still waiting for you since January 2009 to take formal action to make the "57" US States a reality, or else to give the US Territories our sovereign independence??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-02-13 01:25 |
| #1 Heh. Michigan is South Africa. And we even have our own Bantustans in the form of Detroit, Flint and Pontiac. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-02-13 00:22 |