Quick civics test

[SixtyMinuteMan]

That many cowboys commit suicide?

Apparently.

Who knew?

 

[Liar]

Next one:

http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn329/Enmattias/unitedstates8b.jpg

Wassup with Mississippi?

 

[3113]

Wassup with Mississippi?

A straight line if there ever was one. I dunno. It's got a river?

 

[TxRad]

No, what the people in your TV talk about.

As my old daddy used to say, Time for a new TV, I've seen everything on this one.

 

[SixtyMinuteMan]

Next one:

http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn329/Enmattias/unitedstates8b.jpg

Wassup with Mississippi?

Obesity. Mississippi highest, followed by the Red State Collective, Colorado lowest followed by the western & Blue states. Gotta be obesity.

 

[TxRad]

It's either the highest percentage of rednecks or the highest percentage of blacks. They seem to go hand and hand in some parts.

 

[SixtyMinuteMan]

Heh. Clearly you've never been to Montana. And without looking it up, I feel safe in guessing that NY is ahead of ND in black population.

I'm tellin' ya, it's fat asses.

 

[TxRad]

Heh. Clearly you've never been to Montana. And without looking it up, I feel safe in guessing that NY is ahead of ND in black population.

I'm tellin' ya, it's fat asses.

But I'll bet ND is ahead in rednecks.

 

[SixtyMinuteMan]

Dominantly. Point conceded.

 

[Liar]

Obesity. Mississippi highest, followed by the Red State Collective, Colorado lowest followed by the western & Blue states. Gotta be obesity.

Yep it's fatties. Percentage of the population that is classed as obese.

More than one in three. Argh.

 

[Liar]

This one might be a bit more tricky.

http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn329/Enmattias/unitedstates5.png

 

[SixtyMinuteMan]

I am sans clue. I'll ponder.

It's fun trying to get your thoughts in the right vein to solve them. Reminds me of doing puzzles in Games Magazine. Once you get on the right track, you can figure it out, but until then it's completely impenetrable.

 

[TxRad]

How the center of the country has moved.

 

[TxRad]

Or maybe the center of population.

 

[SixtyMinuteMan]

Think you might have it. Population, that is, not geographic center. I think that's in Oklahoma for the ConUS.

 

[TxRad]

Think you might have it. Population, that is, not geographic center. I think that's in Oklahoma for the ConUS.

Uh, Kansas, if memory serves. But it may have moved with Alaska and Hawaii.

 

[Liar]

Or maybe the center of population.

Aye. Mean center of population. That was fast.

 

[SixtyMinuteMan]

Uh, Kansas, if memory serves. But it may have moved with Alaska and Hawaii.

Nah, your memory is probably right. It's in one of them thar flat states.

 

[Liar]

Last one today.

Rather small map so you can't see the numbers, but I hope you get the idea.

http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn329/Enmattias/unitedstates9.jpg

What's so different in the west and the east?

 

[TxRad]

Aye. Mean center of population. That was fast.

Sometimes the old wheels click and sometimes..... Uh, what was the question?

 

[trysail]

Last one today.

Rather small map so you can't see the numbers, but I hope you get the idea.

http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn329/Enmattias/unitedstates9.jpg

What's so different in the west and the east?

Federal land ownership.

 

[SixtyMinuteMan]

Just that quick? From that little map? Huh.

 

[PREMwriter]

percentage of arable land to non-arable land

 

[SixtyMinuteMan]

No, I think Big Green Text is right. It's not political, not with that east-west divide, and it's not demographic for the same reason.

Can't see the percentages, but the majority of several western states are still federally owned. And whether blue is arable or non-arable, it doesn't match up.

 

[Liar]

Federal land ownership.

God dammit.

Now I'm out of maps.