Source: WSJ 3/31/18.
Tag: Map
Map: States’ Gun Related Deaths per Capita
Gun related deaths per capita and and states with “red flag” laws, that allow law enforcement to take guns away from a person who is deemed dangerous to him/herself or others.
Source: WSJ 3/3/18
Map: Toxic Chemical Plants in Flood Plains
Building toxic chemical plants in flood prone areas is another externality. Flood prone land is cheaper to buy, but costs the manufacturer “saves” are in fact transferred in space and time to neighbors and downstream water users when the next flood spreads the toxic chemicals far and wide.
Houston has a particularly heavy concentration of these risks, but industrial farms with sewage settling ponds and mines with settling ponds adjacent to water routes are scattered throughout the United States.
Source: NYT, 2/10/18.
Map: Geographic Shift of Political Parties
Source: WSJ 10/27/16.
Map: Solar Jobs vs. Coal Jobs
Solar power has more jobs across the country, but coal is a more important employer in some states.
Source: NYT 4/26/17.
Map: Nuclear Contamination Sites
Source: xxx, 1/10/17.
Map: Undoing Gerrymandering
I have cavilled about the insidious effects of gerrymandering elsewhere. Some states have a bipartisan commission draw voting district lines. Here is a map of computer defined electoral districts.
Source: Wonkblog.
Map: Average Income of the top-20% Cities
Source: Seattle Times 11/18/17.
Map: Change in US GDP
Source: NYT 10/22/17.
Map: Election Predication (Failures)
