New "guess what the map is telling us" thread

[Sol]

Posted this a while back, but I don't remember anybody guessing.

Admission to the US?

[Sol]

Posted this a while back, but I don't remember anybody guessing.

Canadians? Scandanavians? Dairy Farmers?

Nope. It's a more general concept.

The whole country is now gay?

There's definitely a correlation with state admission... is it based on population at the time the state was admitted?

Possibly year that the state reached it's max population?

[Sol]

Sol, you're almost there!

It's not quite the year that the state reached it's max population (otherwise all the states would be purple) but in concrete terms, it is basically this.

Relative to US, n'est pas?

[Sol]

What about this?

[Sol]

I'm not sure how quickly someone will get this.  We'll see.

Death penalty?

[Sol]

What about this?

Political Party loyalty over presidential election history? Dark = Party diversity. Light = Party loyalty?

Nuh-uh.

[Sol]

Hint: It involves something that states are trying to reduce, but don't agree on how to reduce it.

Illegal immigration?

No.

Teen Pregnancy?