Does your map of the United States look like this? Mine too! That’s why when I found some really eye-opening ones, I had to share a few of them with you. To see a few more, click this link: 19 Eye-Opening Maps Of America That May Surprise You (onlyinyourstate.com) Map #1 – The Fifty States of Television: I’m from Ohio. Can you find it on the map? It’s labeled Family Ties, the most popular TV show ever set in the Buckeye state. It ran on NBC from 1982-1989. I watched it at the height of its popularity but never knew it was about an Ohio family who lived in Columbus, the state capital. Can you find your state on the map? If not, look up at the regular one, then scan back down and find it on this one. Good luck! Map #2 – The Most Popular NFL Teams Across the USA: Can you find Ohio on this map? It has four colors and four favorite teams. That’s because popularity is broken down by county. Can you name all four teams? A yellow one’s on the eastern edge of the state. They’re the Pittsburgh Steelers from Pennsylvania. There’s a brown one whose fans are found only in northern Ohio. Its name, its perfect! The Cleveland Browns! The Cincinnati Bengals own the southern part of the state, but they also have fans in Indiana and Kentucky. You’ll have to look for the fourth team on Ohio’s western border. It’s a teeny tiny bit of blue that’s surrounded by three other colors. It stands for the Indianapolis Colts from Indiana, of course! What about your state? Does it have one favorite team, or does it have to share? Here’s to fall football, the NFL, and yours! Map #3 – The Most Popular Boy’s Names of 2013: Can you tell from a glance what name Americans picked for their baby boys in 2013? If you guessed Liam, you’re right! Ohio picked it too. Did your state pick Liam, or did they pick one of the other favorites? There are eight other names that were popular in 2013. Can you find all of them too? PS – Are you curious what the Top Ten names for 2024could be? Or do you wonder if any of the names are the same? I hope so. . . because I’m always curious, and I looked them up! 1. Liam 2. Noah 3. Oliver 4. James 5. Elijah 6. Mateo 7. Theodore 8. Henry 9. Lucas 10, William Source: Top 1,000 Baby Boy Names in the U.S. 2024 Map #4 – The Most Popular Girl’s Names of 2013: How about baby girl names? What was America’s favorite? If you guessed Emma, you’re right, and Ohio picked it too! Woohoo! Did your state pick Emma, or one of the other names? This time there were only five. Can you find all of them too? PS – Are you curious about the Top Ten names for 2024, or if some of the names stayed the same? I was too! 1. Olivia 2. Emma 3. Charlotte 4. Amelia 5. Sophia 6. Mia 7. Isabella 8. Ava 9. Evelyn 10, Luna Source: Top 1,000 Baby Girl Names in the U.S. 2024 Map #5 – Dogs vs Cats: Did the data bar throw you off? I love how it makes it easy to see where dog lovers and cat lovers live, but I wish I knew what the > 1.25x meant. But, if I understand the key correctly, Ohio is a deep green state, so we have more cats per household than dogs. How many more, I have no idea. Did you catch that cat lovers live in the north and dog lovers in the south? Except for Florida. There’s always an exception to every rule! What about your state, who rules? Cats, or dogs? Map #6 – Your State’s Most Iconic Fast Food Chain: Look at all those great places! Each one represents something special about each state. I’m glad I can find so many of them in Ohio . . . It is the heart of it all! Speaking of Ohio, did you find our iconic food chain, Wendy’s? Dave Thomas founded the first one in 1969 in Columbus, and he named it after his daughter, Wendy. Almost sixty years later, it still has the freshest burgers in the country! That’s because they never use frozen meat. Ever! Can you find your state’s iconic fast-food chain on the map? Here’s hoping I can check it out in Ohio too! Next up – one last eye-opening map! Map #7 – A Distorted Look at the USA: What? How? Why? This is what the US would look like, if the country was divided up according to each state’s population. Look at New Jersey/NJ – It’s HUGE! It grew, and it grew, and it pushed New York off to the side. But don’t worry! New York/NY pushed Pennsylvania/PA, Ohio/OH, and Michigan/MI out of the way too. The link to this series of maps didn’t mention the electoral college, but I thought of it immediately. We have an election coming up. THANK GOODNESS for the electoral college. All my life I’ve heard that it’s useless, but, if you look at this map, you can see why it’s important. If the big states like Florida/FL, New York/NY, and California/CA got together and picked a president, most of the rest of the states wouldn’t matter. Not fair; not nice! If you can’t believe the way the population can shrink states, take a look at Map 13. It shows the parts of the country where no one lives. Then look at Map 19. It shows the counties where half the country lives. Between the two of them, they explain a lot about why this map looks the way it does, and why the electoral college is so important. Here’s the link again, in case you’d like to take a look. Link: 19 Eye-Opening Maps Of America That May Surprise You (onlyinyourstate.com) BTW – if you want to find your state on Maps 13 and 19, you need to have an idea where geographically, your state fits in the country. That’s a little tricky, and for this last map, you only need to know the abbreviation for your state.
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