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This is not a rate or a percentage, so that patterns you see tell you more about where total population is, rather than where unemployment is bad. Nonetheless, it’s pretty cool:
Via I Love Charts.
Cross-posted from SUU Macroblog, which is required reading for my advanced macroeconomics students, and optional reading for those in my Principles classes.
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Might be interesting to repost this map in November after the electoral map gets filled in.
Posted by: Stephen Karlson | July 09, 2012 at 08:48 AM
I don't think the data would work: these aren't unemployment rates.
So, the analogy is to something like those maps they include in atlases that place a dot everywhere so much, say, wheat is produced. It tells you where people grow wheat, but not how they're doing at that.
Same thing here: most of the states that are bright are that way because they have both a lot of unemployed people. Is that because they have a lot of population to begin with, or because their local situation is bad?
Posted by: Dave Tufte | July 09, 2012 at 04:02 PM