O Canada Pt. 2

It's good to be wrong sometimes.*  That is all.


* Shame about the NDP's collapse tho'.

Map: Most Popular Vehicles by US State

Yes, another map.  What ?  I like maps.  Via Kevin Drum, who highlighted the weird regional banding of Ford & Chevy truck-sales*, and, to a lesser degree, Dodge Rams in the West.

Otherwise, we've got Subaru in two of the municipal areas seen as most liberal (Seattle/Washington, Denver/Colorado), and also in Connecticut & Maine; Honda dominating in other more liberal coastal states (Washington DC/Virginia/Maryland**, New Jersey, New York, California, Massachusetts); a mix of trucks in the far rural Northeast; Toyota in Hawaii & Rhode Island; that odd outlier of Chevy trucks in Delaware; and a solid block of sales for Toyota in the Toyota-producing, but otherwise reflexively anti-anything-'forrun', Southeast.

Be interesting perhaps, to see the same data mapped at a more granular level, to see a) how solid those bandings of Chevy & Ford truly are, and b) the degree to which the Honda & Subaru-buying urban areas would likely be tiny islands swimming in a coast-to-coast sea of trucks.


* Yahoo! put this down to 'old college sports conference boundaries'.  What the hell that could possibly have to do with people's choice of a pickup-truck, I don't know, but I'll take their word for it, I guess.

** No, Virginia isn't exactly seen historically as a liberal state, but when the federal government continues to grow, and push jobs out further and further from the District itself...

Map o' the Day: Europe by Applications for Asylum

Read into this what you will I guess.  European countries mapped according to number of applications for asylum per million inhabitants.

Via Strange Maps, who have details & analysis in English.  Original Source in Dutch.

Map o' the Day

Zooming in on the capital...

David Cameron, whose family surely wouldn't have any of their millions hidden away in tax-havens, will be addressing this any day now.

And yes, the actual map is interactive and searchable (sadly only by address), if you want to see properties down to the level of individual flats & parking-spaces, and which shell-companies based in which countries or territories, which as the Eye points out may or may not be tax-havens, own them.

Better a screenshot of this address perhaps, than some random flat owned improbably by a company in Liberia.

Though the Channel Islands, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Hong Kong, Seychelles, and the like sure do seem to own a remarkable amount of property in London, for what are surely, entirely normal legitimate reasons.