Do You Agree With The US Census Bureau "Region Classifications" (See Map)

[muon2]

The South is too large and diverse in the Census classification. I also think that the others would do well to be divided, there's no good reason to restrict the data groupings to only four categories. For instance I use nine regions to subdivide the US for my own demographic analysis. If one then wants to regroup the states from more categories into fewer categories, that remains an option.

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[muon2]

The South is too large and diverse in the Census classification. I also think that the others would do well to be divided, there's no good reason to restrict the data groupings to only four categories. For instance I use nine regions to subdivide the US for my own demographic analysis. If one then wants to regroup the states from more categories into fewer categories, that remains an option.

Interesting. I would think that West Virginia has more in common with Kentucky and Tennessee than New York and New Jersey, but that's just my outsider opinion. Other than that, the placement of everything on your map seems accurate to me.

Since there's a whole thread recently active on WV, I won't go into all my reasons here. The short answer is that I find the demographics and economy to be a better fit to PA than to KY. I'm not looking at politics for the grouping.

[muon2]

One thing that is particularly missing in the Census classifications is the impact of Mexican culture. I think it's due to old groups set by the Census that I find dated. That's why I regrouped AZ, NM, and TX into a Southwest region. One could argue for CA as well due to its Mexican influence, but I wouldn't want to put the large and distinct states of TX and CA together.

[muon2]

Following jimrtex's suggestion of 9 divisions for SCOTUS seats, this division has an average deviation of 3.6% and a maximum of 7.3% from the quota (PR and other territories are with DC).

[muon2]

According to the Congressional Record for the confirmation vote, Scalia was described as being of Virginia. He had lived in a number of states as a lawyer and professor, so I cold imagine that a "home state" would be otherwise hard to describe.

Other than Scalia (VA), Thomas (GA), and Kennedy (CA) the justices are all from the two northeastern regions on the map (2 MA, 2 NY, NJ and MD).