Hey Y'all-
I know its been a while since I posted, and that I never really concluded the last adventure in blogging, but I figured that I should shift focus of the blog in order to keep it alive.
SO. This is going to turn into a map blog, with occasional entries about chickens, State College, and wherever else my whims might carry us. I'm currently TAing an intro to human geography class and am trying to find maps that help demonstrate some of the important lessons in class, so I'm going to post the good ones here as well.
You might have to click on the map to read it, but I think its pretty illustrative. I can recall growing up outside of Wisconsin and calling soft drinks soda and going to visit cousins in the south-central part of the state and them calling it pop or soda-pop and thinking they were weird. One thing that I noted about the map was the Lake of the Woods county (the northernmost county in the contiguous 48 states) is listed as "other." Now I've spent a significant amount of time up there, and didn't recall anything particular about soft-drink names, so I checked up on the county data, and they had like 4 people who answered their survey in that county! So I guess its important to always check the data behind the maps.
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