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minionofmidas
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« Reply #50 on: January 23, 2006, 02:47:59 PM »



No hints this time, unless one is requested

The lighter the shade of blue, the less states each state shares a border with.  Maine is red because it shares a border with only one other state, and Hawaii and Alaska are gray because they don't border any other states at all.
^                ^                 ^
And New Jersey and Delaware are wrong.
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minionofmidas
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« Reply #51 on: January 30, 2006, 07:24:23 AM »



Republican-137 EV 38% PV
Democrat-75 EV 34% PV
Other-23 EV 27% PV
Atlas forum membership in each state...with whoever gets a plurality in each state winning?
Probably over a certain amount of posts.
Who's the third Idahoan?
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minionofmidas
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« Reply #52 on: April 17, 2006, 07:23:57 AM »

Non-political, and definitely a waste of time, but nonetheless:


It almost looks like it would be...

Red - no occurance of the letter A
Blue - one occurance of the letter A
Green - multiple occurances of the letter A

...but there are several states for which this doesn't work.

Am I on the right track?
The Carolinas, Nebraska, Montana and California to be precise. All ofthem states depicted in blue that should be green if you're correct. Hmmm....
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minionofmidas
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« Reply #53 on: June 08, 2006, 04:08:13 AM »

Interesting border changes in the NW.
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minionofmidas
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« Reply #54 on: June 09, 2006, 04:43:44 AM »

Actually, I made a couple mistakes. Nebraska and Florida should both be blue.
Anybody want to guess?
Okay, since nobody wants to guess, I'll just say what it is. Each state is colored according to the political affiliation of the last incumbent Senator to lose reelection. I think Kansas should also be blue, though.
That's a pretty cool idea.
Some of these are pretty long ago, I suppose?
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minionofmidas
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« Reply #55 on: June 29, 2006, 03:12:23 AM »

That's a pretty cool map.
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minionofmidas
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« Reply #56 on: August 14, 2006, 04:14:49 AM »


(if that's using the 'red' and 'blue' the public uses)
Bush says F--- everyone who lives east of the Mississippi River!
Republicans vote a measure through congress to turn everywhere east of the Muzzsippy into a nukes-testing ground.
Democrats pass a platform plank to turn over all those uninhabitable wastes west of the Mississippi to Al-Qaeda as an appeasement measure.
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minionofmidas
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« Reply #57 on: August 28, 2006, 08:31:44 AM »


State's most lopsided result since some date or other. Noone has cracked 60% in Ohio for several thousand millennia IIRC.
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minionofmidas
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« Reply #58 on: September 04, 2006, 01:02:18 PM »


Clue - each different shade represents a special case. The D80 and D60 shades are related. The D40 shade is not related to these. The I40 shade is not related to the I80 shade.
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minionofmidas
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« Reply #59 on: September 11, 2006, 09:23:48 AM »


Clue - each different shade represents a special case. The D80 and D60 shades are related. The D30 shade is not related to these. The I30 shade is not related to the I80 shade.

It's a map of 1968.
80 shades - one candidate (Nixon / Humphrey / Wallace) over 50%, no other candidate over 25%.
60 shades - one candidate over 50%, one other candidate over 25% (actually, it was initially supposed to be separate colours, 60s and 50s,  depending on which other candidate crossed 25%, but this wasn't necessary as there was no state where Nixon or Humphrey was over 50 and Wallace over 25)
30 shades - two candidates over 25%, none over 50% (light blue - not used - ; Nixon and Wallace. pink: Nixon and Humphrey. light green: Humphrey and Wallace.)
grey - all three candidates over 25%.
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minionofmidas
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« Reply #60 on: September 19, 2006, 07:49:32 AM »

Whoa. Long time no see. Welcome back! Cheesy (Even though you disappeared in the middle of your Senate run Angry )
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minionofmidas
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« Reply #61 on: September 20, 2006, 01:13:03 PM »

Whoa. Long time no see. Welcome back! Cheesy (Even though you disappeared in the middle of your Senate run Angry )

Yeah, sorry about that.  I spent two weeks without touching a computer because I was too busy, and then I was too ashamed to come back :/
Not a problem, I just felt stupid for voting for you anyways. Smiley
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minionofmidas
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« Reply #62 on: January 09, 2007, 10:56:55 AM »

Historical demographics.

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minionofmidas
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« Reply #63 on: January 11, 2007, 10:30:43 AM »
« Edited: January 11, 2007, 10:32:27 AM by Everything is not enough, and nothing is too much to bear »

Number of different largest urban places a state has had. (States' modern boundaries. Some states had no urban places in their early statehood, not to mention across much of their territorial period.)

ME - only Portland
NH - Portsmouth, Manchester
VT - only Burlington
MA - only Boston
RI - Newport, Providence
CT - New Haven, New London, Hartford, Bridgeport
NY - only New York
NJ - Trenton, Newark
PA - Philadelphia
OH - Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus
IN - New Albany, Indianapolis
IL - only Chicago
MI - only Detroit
WI - only Milwaukee
MN - Saint Paul, Minneapolis
IA - Burlington, Dubuque, Davenport, Des Moines
MO - Saint Louis, Kansas City
ND - only Fargo
SD - only Sioux Falls
NE - only Omaha
KS - Leavenworth, Kansas City, Wichita
DE - only Wilmington
MD - only Baltimore
DC - only Washington (using DC's then boundaries though, Alexandria once was it's largest place!)
VA - Norfolk, Raleigh, Virginia Beach
WV - Wheeling, Huntingdon, Charleston
NC - New Bern, Wilmington, Winston-Salem, Charlotte
SC - Charleston, Columbia
GA - Savannah, Atlanta
FL - Pensacola, Key West, Jacksonville, Miami
KY - Louisville, Lexington
TN - Nashville, Memphis
AL - Mobile, Birmingham
MS - Natchez, Vicksburg, Meridian, Jackson
AR - only Little Rock
LA - only New Orleans
OK - Guthrie, Oklahoma City
TX - Galveston, San Antonio, Dallas, Houston
MT - Helena, Butte, Great Falls, Billings
ID - only Boise
WY - Cheyenne, Casper
CO - only Denver
NM - Santa Fe, Albuquerque
AZ - Tucson, Phoenix
UT - only Salt Lake City
NV - Virginia City, Reno, Las Vegas
WA - Walla Walla, Seattle
OR - only Portland
CA - San Francisco, Los Angeles
AK - Fairbanks, Juneau, Anchorage
HI - only Honolulu

Just noticed that NE and ME show up wrong; something to do with those CDs I suppose.
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minionofmidas
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« Reply #64 on: January 11, 2007, 10:37:50 AM »


Congressional elections.
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minionofmidas
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« Reply #65 on: January 27, 2007, 09:50:49 AM »

No takers? It's not that hard.
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minionofmidas
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« Reply #66 on: February 01, 2007, 03:45:32 AM »

This Congress compared to 93-4 Congress. Red = more Democratic, Blue = more Republican, Green = no change (Sanders counted as Democrat)
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minionofmidas
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« Reply #67 on: February 13, 2007, 03:26:09 PM »

Historical demographics.


Ohio's 1803 may be wrong, in which case the answer for Ohio is 1832.
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minionofmidas
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« Reply #68 on: February 13, 2007, 03:31:50 PM »

I would say that year that each became a state, but that only applies to a few of them.  The year that each got more than three electoral votes?
No. It does have to do with their congressional delegation, though. Or rather, the people in it.
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minionofmidas
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« Reply #69 on: February 18, 2007, 07:53:01 AM »

Historical demographics.


Ohio's 1803 may be wrong, in which case the answer for Ohio is 1832.

Come on. Someone else take a potshot. I don't want to solve it quite yet. Smiley
Alaska might provide a clue.
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minionofmidas
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« Reply #70 on: February 18, 2007, 02:40:35 PM »

I've been trying to work it out, but I just can't.  Ok, is it to do with senators, representatives, both, or neither?
Both. Or perhaps rather "either".
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minionofmidas
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« Reply #71 on: February 18, 2007, 04:01:49 PM »

Ok, well 2002 was when Lisa Murkowski took office, and she was the first person to represent Alaska who was actually born there.  So, is it something to do with the year that the first congresscritter took office that was actually born in that state/territory?
Yes. Smiley (Although, technically it's "was elected/appointed" rather than "took office". Otherwise you'd get uneven years instead of most of the even years here.)
Note that I ignored nonvoting delegates.

John Smith, one of the original Senators of your homestate, was born "in the Ohio Country (which may denote riverine W.Va. or southwestern Pa. rather than Ohio... but probably denotes Ohio) or on the Virginia Frontier".
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minionofmidas
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« Reply #72 on: March 02, 2007, 01:48:00 PM »

This one is highly disturbing.  Don't know if it's been done here before:



If you know what this is a map of, I'm going to be rather suspicious of you...

Was that that study of the voting intentions of the insane?
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minionofmidas
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« Reply #73 on: March 13, 2007, 02:09:09 PM »

This one is highly disturbing.  Don't know if it's been done here before:



If you know what this is a map of, I'm going to be rather suspicious of you...

Was that that study of the voting intentions of the insane?

Nope.  Red = Age of consent is 18.  Light blue = Age of consent is 18 in some cases, under 18 in others.  Blue = 17, deeper blue = 16, deepest blue = under 16 in some cases.

Yes, Iowa has an AoC of 14 in some instances.  Gotta produce farm kids early and often I guess.

Time to get back to that Iowa avatar, methinks.
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minionofmidas
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« Reply #74 on: June 24, 2007, 04:43:09 AM »
« Edited: June 25, 2007, 04:14:23 AM by The artist formerly known as Supa Hasi »



May conceivably have been done before. 2004-related.

Related to this map:

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