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« Reply #25 on: December 04, 2005, 06:34:52 PM »

Texas
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« Reply #26 on: December 10, 2005, 12:02:31 PM »

California has every group in the US, but not in the proportions as a country as a whole.
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« Reply #27 on: December 10, 2005, 04:00:42 PM »

Missouri and the Bronx taken together will do just fine.
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« Reply #28 on: December 10, 2005, 09:17:10 PM »

Demographic-wise, maybe Nevada?
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« Reply #29 on: December 10, 2005, 10:16:40 PM »

Ugh...Missouri -- the reason why there are 49 stars on my flag instead of 50.  What a horrible state.  That said, it's probably a good representation of the whole country, but seemed like it was firmly in Bush's corner through most of the 2004 election.

I think Ohio (for right now) is a better cultural representation of the US.
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« Reply #30 on: December 11, 2005, 01:17:28 AM »

We're too diverse to have one single culture. Lets face it the only cultural similarities between a rural hick in albama and a boston suburbanite is that they're both english speaking.
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« Reply #31 on: December 11, 2005, 03:24:00 AM »

From an outsiders perspective, I think Virginia is the average of America.
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« Reply #32 on: December 11, 2005, 09:26:39 AM »

I'd say Ohio, but Pennsylvania would be a good indicator as well
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« Reply #33 on: December 22, 2005, 08:03:23 PM »

Ohio

- The south part is rural.
- The centre is midwestern.
- The north is northern.
- One of the closest rates of city versus rural living to the country as a whole.

Illinois also qualifies.

I would agree. OH has better balance of the different types than IL, but IL does better at representing diverse groups such as the Hispanic population. Also southern IL is more "southern" than southern OH, IMO, so it gets better diversity from that as well.
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« Reply #34 on: December 23, 2005, 01:25:38 AM »


New Jersey
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« Reply #35 on: December 23, 2005, 07:18:11 AM »


Is that based on numbers, or just a guess?  That sounds reasonable, although I'd think New Jersey has an unusually high number of blacks?  Although NV would have too many Hispanics.
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« Reply #36 on: December 24, 2005, 01:15:11 AM »

Ohio

- The south part is rural.
- The centre is midwestern.
- The north is northern.
- One of the closest rates of city versus rural living to the country as a whole.

Illinois also qualifies.

I would agree. OH has better balance of the different types than IL, but IL does better at representing diverse groups such as the Hispanic population. Also southern IL is more "southern" than southern OH, IMO, so it gets better diversity from that as well.

I agree with Illinois. It's southern end does stretch down further than Ohio. Ohio simply does not represent the south well to me.

As for Missouri, St. Louis is simply not big enough of a city to represent urban America. It is a bygone of the early 20th century, a relic long past its prime. And the state's persistence as a bellwether over Delaware is purely an accident of the accidental 2000 election-- if 600 votes had gone the other way in Florida, Delaware might easily be receiving all the hype that Missouri currently gets.
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« Reply #37 on: December 24, 2005, 08:20:57 AM »

Saint Louis is declining, but Kansas City is fairing normally, and Springfield is fast-growing.
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