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The States: Mad Scientist Laboratories of Democracy

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dxmnkd316 said:
Maybe it's just the simple fact we all know is true. Anyone from Asia just absolutely blows at driving. And I mean zero redeeming qualities.
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Reminds me of Drawn Together, and Ling Ling's eye test for driving:
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:p:D
 
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aparch said:
So with all these bills being passed state by state to make transgendered folks taking a pi** illegal... who's "checking" to make sure that the right people are using the right bathroom?


Is the guy lifting skirts in the women's room being paid minimum wage? Or is it like a $15/hr job to start?
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Oh man the attack ads over that would be classic :D
 
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As some know, I'm a booster for the Twin Cities area. So I just came across a map of affluence by county. And MSP is rich. Seriously so.

It has 3 counties averaging over $75k and 11 in the area averaging over $60k. That dwarfs any other metro area anywhere close in pop...Denver, Seattle, Atlanta, Phoenix, Cleveland...and even those of twice the population...DFW, Houston, LA, Miami, etc. Frankly Chicago and Boston are in the same realm of wealth at triple the population.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/US_county_household_median_income_2012.png
 
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5mn_Major said:
As some know, I'm a booster for the Twin Cities area. So I just came across a map of affluence by county. And MSP is rich. Seriously so.

It has 3 counties averaging over $75k and 11 in the area averaging over $60k. That dwarfs any other metro area anywhere close in pop...Denver, Seattle, Atlanta, Phoenix, Cleveland...and even those of twice the population...DFW, Houston, LA, Miami, etc. Frankly Chicago and Boston are in the same realm of wealth at triple the population.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/US_county_household_median_income_2012.png
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You're not analyzing the wealth of metro areas with this. You're measuring some bizarre combination of wealth, urban sprawl, and physical county size.
 
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GrinCDXX said:
You're not analyzing the wealth of metro areas with this. You're measuring some bizarre combination of wealth, urban sprawl, and physical county size.
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I agree his choices are weird, but the Twin Cities is the 5th highest median household income MSA in the US. (It's 7th in per capita, but particularly with US levels of inequality that's a much less valuable metric.)

Here's a map of all the CMSAs.
 
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GrinCDXX said:
You're not analyzing the wealth of metro areas with this. You're measuring some bizarre combination of wealth, urban sprawl, and physical county size.
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Thought someone might come out with this. But its extremely directional regardless...to the point that it is validated by exact numbers...

Kepler said:
I agree his choices are weird, but the Twin Cities is the 5th highest median household income MSA in the US. (It's 7th in per capita, but particularly with US levels of inequality that's a much less valuable metric.)

Here's a map of all the CMSAs.
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MSP coming up 5th (really 4th if you take it that Anchorage is strictly oil money) is quite impressive. The only MSAs that have higher are San Francisco, NYC and Washington. Those are the big national income generating heavy weights. Minnesota actually has two top ten metros.
 
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5mn_Major said:
Thought someone might come out with this. But its extremely directional regardless...to the point that it is validated by exact numbers...



MSP coming up 5th (really 4th if you take it that Anchorage is strictly oil money) is quite impressive. The only MSAs that have higher are San Francisco, NYC and Washington. Those are the big national income generating heavy weights. Minnesota actually has two top ten metros.
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Yeah, I don't doubt the overall conclusion you're making, just found the metric you were using to be very odd.
 
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GrinCDXX said:
Yeah, I don't doubt the overall conclusion you're making, just found the metric you were using to be very odd.
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I understand. As I said, was just highlighting the broader issue. I think it does directly highlight the fact that the twin cities exurbs, unlike most other metro areas, are rich. Carver, Scott, Wright counties are not really very suburban and are loaded.

Again, pretty impressive the cities at 4th/5th in income out of 381 MSAs.
 
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Carver County might be skewed because it's where Hazeltine Nat'l Golf Course (Hazelden? I'm not a golfer) is located, and a couple miles down the road is Prince's Paisley Park. Scott County has Prior Lake, which began as a cabin lake, and later the rich people started buying up those cabins, tearing them down, and built luxury housing, driving up property values and forcing the former inhabitants out due to the accompanying property tax increases. Basically, it's a smaller version of Lake Minnetonka.
 
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