Proportion of the states' population to their largest city

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[PiMp DaDdy FitzGerald]

Concentration of smart people per state.

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Concentration of smart people per state.

LOL. It's not even that wrong...

[ilikeverin]

Something involving travel?  Something like proportion whose commute is less than X minutes long?  Just trying to figure a measure where the Mountain West and Great Plains (farmers/ranchers?) would resemble New Yorkers but, critically, not New Jerseyites or Connecticuters.

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Something involving travel?  Something like proportion whose commute is less than X minutes long?  Just trying to figure a measure where the Mountain West and Great Plains (farmers/ranchers?) would resemble New Yorkers but, critically, not New Jerseyites or Connecticuters.

No. Sorry.
(Although commute could indeed be seen as a consequence of the topic of the map.)

[Sol]

Percent Urban?

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Percent Urban?

Explain...

[gs]

Seems like the proportion of the state's population in the largest city proper of the state.

[ElectionsGuy]

Seems like the proportion of the state's population in the largest city proper of the state.

Nice! Yeah I guarantee that's it. Anchorage and NYC both have about 41-42% of their states respective populations. Every other biggest city of other states are a smaller %.  

Columbia in South Carolina (2.79%) and Charleston in West Virginia (2.77%) have the smallest proportion of the population for the biggest city.

[Cranberry]

But that doesn't really fit IMO with Tennessee/Kentucky.. I can't imagine Memphis being home to a smaller percentage of Tennesseans than Louisville to Kentuckians. And does Albuquerque really have such a relatively big population to all of New Mexico? And Atlanta such a relatively small? 

[beaver2.0]

The amount of tiomes each state has voted Republican.

[Smash255]

But that doesn't really fit IMO with Tennessee/Kentucky.. I can't imagine Memphis being home to a smaller percentage of Tennesseans than Louisville to Kentuckians. And does Albuquerque really have such a relatively big population to all of New Mexico? And Atlanta such a relatively small? 

Atlanta proper is less than 5% of the population of Georgia, more than 90% of the metro area lives outside of the city

[traininthedistance]

But that doesn't really fit IMO with Tennessee/Kentucky.. I can't imagine Memphis being home to a smaller percentage of Tennesseans than Louisville to Kentuckians. And does Albuquerque really have such a relatively big population to all of New Mexico? And Atlanta such a relatively small? 

Louisville is basically all of Jefferson County- that is, more than one out of six congressional districts.

Memphis is most of, but not all, Shelby County- more along the lines of roughly out of nine congressional districts.

The discrepancy makes sense because Tennessee is larger than Kentucky by a larger percentage than Memphis is larger than Louisville.

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Seems like the proportion of the state's population in the largest city proper of the state.

Congrats! That's correct.

P.S.: Thank you for dedicating your first comment after four whole years to one of my maps.

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But that doesn't really fit IMO with Tennessee/Kentucky.. I can't imagine Memphis being home to a smaller percentage of Tennesseans than Louisville to Kentuckians. And does Albuquerque really have such a relatively big population to all of New Mexico? And Atlanta such a relatively small? 

I myself was surprised at some of the results.

The biggest surprises in my opinion:

Utah
West Virginia
Georgia
Washington
California

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I didn't find California all that surprising, when both LA and San Fran are in the same state.

[Cranberry]

But that doesn't really fit IMO with Tennessee/Kentucky.. I can't imagine Memphis being home to a smaller percentage of Tennesseans than Louisville to Kentuckians. And does Albuquerque really have such a relatively big population to all of New Mexico? And Atlanta such a relatively small? 

Atlanta proper is less than 5% of the population of Georgia, more than 90% of the metro area lives outside of the city

But that doesn't really fit IMO with Tennessee/Kentucky.. I can't imagine Memphis being home to a smaller percentage of Tennesseans than Louisville to Kentuckians. And does Albuquerque really have such a relatively big population to all of New Mexico? And Atlanta such a relatively small? 

Louisville is basically all of Jefferson County- that is, more than one out of six congressional districts.

Memphis is most of, but not all, Shelby County- more along the lines of roughly out of nine congressional districts.

The discrepancy makes sense because Tennessee is larger than Kentucky by a larger percentage than Memphis is larger than Louisville.

Thanks for the explanation. Now it makes perfect sense

[ElectionsGuy]

I got one here. Now this is pretty hard, but I'll give you that it basically has to do with the election results of 2012. There are only 4 distinctions, but I'll give hints if I need to.

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I got one here. Now this is pretty hard, but I'll give you that it basically has to do with the election results of 2012. There are only 4 distinctions, but I'll give hints if I need to.

I've got no idea. All of the blue states were heavily Republican in 2012.
However, Arkansas, Kentucky and Alabama are colored green/red.
Plus, I can't think of what Alaska, Colorado and South Carolina have in common.

Does this map have to do with political geography or demographics?

[ElectionsGuy]

I got one here. Now this is pretty hard, but I'll give you that it basically has to do with the election results of 2012. There are only 4 distinctions, but I'll give hints if I need to.

I've got no idea. All of the blue states were heavily Republican in 2012.
However, Arkansas, Kentucky and Alabama are colored green/red.
Plus, I can't think of what Alaska, Colorado and South Carolina have in common.

Does this map have to do with political geography or demographics?

Political geography. Here's another hint: It is about different counties and how they voted (why do you think West Virginia is an island of blue?)

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Political geography. Here's another hint: It is about different counties and how they voted (why do you think West Virginia is an island of blue?)

Because all of its counties voted Republican?

[Miles]

Beats the crap out of me.

Does it have anything to do with 1) how the largest county voted for or 2) how a majority of counties voted?

[ElectionsGuy]

Political geography. Here's another hint: It is about different counties and how they voted (why do you think West Virginia is an island of blue?)

Because all of its counties voted Republican?

Yes, but its something other than that.

Beats the crap out of me.

Does it have anything to do with 1) how the largest county voted for or 2) how a majority of counties voted?

You're right on #1. And as much as it seems (with all the plains states with almost all republican counties blue) it doesn't have to do with #2.

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Is it how the biggest and the smallest county voted?

[ElectionsGuy]

Is it how the biggest and the smallest county voted?

Yes, congrats.

Red - Biggest and smallest county voted for Obama
Blue - Biggest and smallest county voted for Romney
Green - biggest county voted for Obama, smallest county voted for Romney
Gold - Biggest county voted for Romney, smallest county voted for Obama

Interesting dynamics in a lot of these states, especially in Colorado, Maine, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the south.

Also I used 2010 census for the populations.