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2014-02-13 Economy
This Brilliant Map Renames Each US State With A Country Generating The Same GDP
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Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-02-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#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||   2014-02-13 00:22|| Front Page Top

#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||   2014-02-13 01:25|| Front Page Top

#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||   2014-02-13 01:32|| Front Page Top

#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||   2014-02-13 05:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Ouch: NY = Mexico that will leave a mark.
Posted by regular joe 2014-02-13 06:29||   2014-02-13 06:29|| Front Page Top

#6 >although us national gdp has meaning

You really think so? GDP is hugely misleading.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-02-13 07:01||   2014-02-13 07:01|| Front Page Top

#7 So this makes Australia 'Baja New Zealand'?
Sorry. It's early.
Posted by ed in texas 2014-02-13 07:23||   2014-02-13 07:23|| Front Page Top

#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||   2014-02-13 08:02|| Front Page Top

#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||   2014-02-13 08:34|| Front Page Top

#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||   2014-02-13 09:03|| Front Page Top

#11 Hahaha, Utah and Bangladesh!
Posted by Skidmark 2014-02-13 11:27||   2014-02-13 11:27|| Front Page Top

#12 next month michigan may switch from south africa to anarctica.
Posted by airandee 2014-02-13 11:27||   2014-02-13 11:27|| Front Page Top

#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||   2014-02-13 11:30|| Front Page Top

#14 I'm always going to remember Archie Bunker mentioning "the grossest national product..."
Posted by M. Murcek 2014-02-13 15:22||   2014-02-13 15:22|| Front Page Top

#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||   2014-02-13 17:35|| Front Page Top

#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||   2014-02-13 19:40|| Front Page Top

#17 DC = Hungary hungry FTFY
Posted by OldSpook 2014-02-13 20:46||   2014-02-13 20:46|| Front Page Top

#18 It's downhill of all the Russias 57 states.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-02-13 20:50||   2014-02-13 20:50|| Front Page Top

#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||   2014-02-13 21:13|| Front Page Top

#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||   2014-02-13 21:51|| Front Page Top

#21 I find it pleasantly ironic that Illinois is Saudiland and Louisiana is Isreal.
Posted by Charles 2014-02-13 22:38||   2014-02-13 22:38|| Front Page Top

23:10 JosephMendiola
23:08 USN, Ret.
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